[CQ-Contest] Another Kind of Recording (hi)

[Joe]

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.
>