With so much audio editing

softwarehow do you choose what you need?

When I worked as a editor for a local station, one of my jobs was to edit new content to make it ready for live play. We used software that cost around a hundred to two hundred dollars, and made it very complicated. First you had to analyze the file into wave. From there you then had to analyze the DB level through out the track to locate the highest, and lowest pitch.

Once that was done you would normalize the file to make it sound consistent through out its length. After all that, you were finally ready to edit the file down, clean it up, and then at last re amplify the track to a decent audible level.

If you watched the video then you would see how simple this software makes it for doing all the simple audio work you could need to do, this software is also used by many paranormal investigators do to its good voice capturing. What that means is if you tell it to filter out all background noise, it will do so and leave you with only the vocals. Great for EVP’s.

One thing I do not like about it is the hiss and pop feature, it does not retain very good audible quality, for this you will need to buy a decent audio program that can analyze and recognize the instruments, and voice tracks. When it comes to audio editing software there are mainly three forms of it, you have track editors that are good for editing existing music but not creating new tracks, you have things like garage band which allow you to mix and match pieces of audio to form a compilation, and lastly you have live streaming editors. These are normally in the form of mixing boards, however there is now software out that acts like a virtual mixer board, used to bring up some sections of a band and lower others. IE: Drum solo is coming up, so the audio grip would have to slowly fade down the rest of the band, and bring up the drums.

Now that you have a small understanding of exactly what a editor goes through to provide you with that music on the radio, maybe next time you hear your favorite song you can give credit where its due,to the editor not the radio personality. Do you know how hard it is to turn a seven minute long song, into a three minute long track without you catching on? Its not simple, it takes years of memorizing note patterns, cutting, and phase syncing to make it that smooth of a transition.

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