The capability of Audacity — and I’ve used it myself in broadcast applications
— means nobody should take for granted the authenticity of any recording, let
alone contest sponsors.
73, kelly, ve4xt
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> On Jan 30, 2018, at 14:34, Joe <nss@mwt.net> wrote:
>
> On audacity, you can do it automatically.
>
> It's under "Chains" if anyone needs assistance drop me a note.
>
> I took all 18,000+ files from Gerry's DVK machine.
> Ran them through "Normalize" then ran them through the "Equalize" with the
> mic freq response of the Heil HC-4 mic element.
>
> Like I said 18K files and only a few mouse clicks.
>
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>> On 1/30/2018 7:37 AM, N4ZR wrote:
>> I may be the last contester on the planet to discover this, but Audacity
>> offers some truly incredible capabilities for our purposes. Most folks are
>> probably aware that you can use it to normalize all your recordings to the
>> same peak level, but did you know that you can also use it to speed up or
>> slow down recorded speech without significantly changing how your voice
>> sounds?
>>
>> I tend to speak slowly when I try to enunciate clearly, and the resulting
>> recordings lack a sense of urgency. By using Audacity's Speed and Pitch
>> altering routines (on the Effects menu) I have been able to speed up
>> recorded speech by as much as 40 percent while retaining my intonation and
>> phrasing. In other words, it still sounds like me, just in more of a hurry.
>>
>> It's a 2-step process for each file, but I anticipate that the result will
>> be well worthwhile, particularly when I run in a phone contest. It's not
>> the time saved, but the impression of the op on the other end that you
>> really want to go fast, causing the op to stick around and call again.
>>
>
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