Wed Oct 15: Putting it together, Part One

Greetings children, and welcome back!

BEFORE WE BEGIN, LET ME PLEASE PUT IN A CALL FOR YOU TO BRING IN MP3 FILES OF SONGS THAT YOU REALLY LIKE. TWO OR THREE SHOULD DO THE TRICK!

Today, we will be accomplishing three very important things:

A) I have some shared folders available for you on BOX.net. What this means is that you will all have a place where you can upload files that you will need for future classes, whether it be song or sound files (more on that in just a second), or sessions that you have done in the "radio room" next door, and then converted to mp3s.

In your email inbox, you should find an invitation from me to share this new folder. I want you to respond to that email, and then see if you can upload a file that is named after you -- it can be even just a simple Word document.

B) From this point forward, you should upload work that you have finished into this shared folder. So for example, many of you will be continuing the process of recording 5 minutes of material next door, and then exporting this stuff as an mp3. Please upload this stuff to your new shared folder directly. (If you also want to email it to me and to yourself that is also fine)

C) Finally, I want you to start working on putting your show together. By this I mean that you already have a theme song and at least two different mp3 recordings. What I want you to do is to use Adobe Audition to fit these pieces together, using a separate track for each file you use. You will probably find that there are some things where you need to choose which parts of it you want. For example, many of you have theme songs that are just way too long. At this point, you will want to consider how best to get them to a minute long or less.

You may also have places in yopur other files where you messed up, and you will want to cut out those parts using the "selection" tool I showed you in Audition.

Well, that should be enough exercise for this morning :-)

Cheers,
Mr. L