MUSC 2100 Lecture 3: Audio Editing
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Graphic depiction of the sound wave produced by a voice making a "buh" sound. Looking more closely we can see the individual cycles of compression and rarefaction that make the sound. The distance between adjacent compression peaks related to the frequency (pitch) while the height of each peak relates to the amplitude (loudness) of the wave. The essential sonic elements of speech (often referred to as "phonemes") Monophthongs (the quality of the vowel doesn"t change over time) Dipthongs (the vowel glides from one quality to another over time) Triphthongs (the vowel glides successively through three qualities over time) Create smooth beginnings and endings ("heads" and "tails") using zero-crossing edits and fades. Create smooth transitions between different recording by using crossfades. Remove unwanted sounds such as performer errors, pauses, "umms", "uhhhs", stutters or other unintentionally recorded sounds. Edit the best moments from a series of recorded takes to create a single, "perfect" performance (also known as "comping")
