GPW - Experiment 4 - EQ your own audio
Time to have a play with some settings.
First of all we had a play with hearing it. Now we get to adjust some of our own audio. Record something new or work with one of the recordings you made in an earlier experiment.
Here is a video of me fiddling with EQ in Audacity. It can be a bit like watching paint dry I know. Hopefully it helps make sense of what you can do with EQ and makes it quicker.
- Watch the video
- Open up your editing software and record or import a piece of audio. I suggest a short piece.
- You can use the repeat function if it helps.
- Push some buttons and drag some sliders - it is for fun and to get a feel. Try to make it sound awful and then bring it back to sounding better than you started. Reset as often as you need to.
| WATCH THE VIDEO |
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Catch you soon, Steve
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