Editing Audio

Time to edit my audio to make it sound like a phone's audio. I opened Audacity and the tutorials that I researched last blog, and I started to upload my files to Audacity.

But of course, sound files and file types just can't go well together like the last time when I tried to upload the .mp3 into the file opening. This time, the file type of the audio Sean sent me was a .m4a and apparently this file type isn't accepted in Audacity, and I have to change it to a WAV file. Why am I not surprised? All of the sound files just have to have obstacles that I have to overcome or just minor annoyances like this. This is the error popup that I got when trying to import my audio files to Audacity.

Oh well. Time to go back to my old friend, an online file converter. Here's the website that I used to convert the files from .m4a to .wav: https://cloudconvert.com/m4a-to-wav.

With my files' format changed, I could begin the process of changing all my sound files. I opened up my first WAV file in Audacity. I went to the effects panel and then went to the Graphic EQ panel. This is where all of the frequencies and pitches could be manipulated to make different sounding audio clips. I followed the tutorial to make the lower and higher frequencies lower in volume, with the middle frequencies having higher frequency.

This really made the audio sound like it was from a phone call. I was surprised by just how different the audio was. After editing the audio, it was a bit quiet, so I went to amplify the sound. I went to the effects panel and opened the Amplify panel. This is where I could make all the audio clips the same volume. I could also adjust the audio to make it louder for the clips.

After this, I could repeat the process for the other two files that Sean sent me, since there were a total of three files.

Here is an example of how different the audios sound. One of these files are the original file that Sean sent me. The other file is the phone call audio. Try to guess which one is which. 

With the audio edited, I could now complete the film opening. I have to add the clip of the rotoscoped hospital scene, this audio, and fill in some holes in the film opening. There isn't much work left to do. I'm almost done now. Well, until next time. See ya!