Entries tagged with “audio editing” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Suppose you are happy with a home recording of your voice or your acoustic instrument, except, rats, there were a couple of bad notes. What do you do? Correct the notes using Melodyne, as professional recording studios do, but with surprising ease.

Creating an audio-only version of Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" gave me a huge lesson in sound design - a process more analagous to songwriting than I realized...

While editing a podcast in BIAS Peak 6 recently, I was disturbed to hear the audio distorting even though the peak levels were below 100%. Turns out the culprit was a stealthy slider.

In iTunes and on iPods, "audiobook" is not just another genre, but a distinct type of audio file with a few useful extra features. Creating your own files of this type is possible, and there are numerous tutorials on how to do this. But this is a non-trivial and tedious task -- unless you delegate all the heavy lifting to Audiobook Builder.

I got an interesting question from a student recently. She'd read my article about making surround-sound DVDs at home and wondered about one step, which apparently required the high-end BIAS Peak audio editor. I gave her this recipe, which should work in many programs.

Normally, flow is a good thing. A lot of my time as an editor is spent trying to make ideas and words connect smoothly to tell a story. But while editing a recent podcast, I had an important realization: Sometimes breaking the flow of one element increases the flow of the whole. To hear a good example of this, listen...

I just got a call from a blind man who liked the sound of my podcast. He asked how he could get started podcasting. Would it require expensive equipment? I told him that all I used was a USB mic and some software. (In my case, Ableton Live, BIAS Peak, and Izotope Ozone, but there are plenty of free options...

YouTube has just launched its new TestTube site, which allows you to test out beta features that haven't been fully deployed. One of these new features is "Replace Audio", allowing you to sub out the audio track of your YouTube video with a licensed track. Here's how to do it:...

During a long flight recently, I had to clean up some audio I had recorded for a podcast. Too many "ums" and "ahs" for my taste, so a little surgery was required. I fired up Rogue Amoeba's Fission, and cut through 30 minutes of yak yak faster than bare feet running on hot sand. That's what this Universal Binary...

This $30 direct-to-disk recorder offers podcasters one thing that GarageBand 3 and even Apple's Logic cannot, and that's the ability to record audio for longer than one hour and eight minutes. It supports audio files up to two GB in size.