Downloading Audacity and Attempting to Record

Today in "Composing Cyberspace," we had to download the program, Audacity, and try to record ourselves saying something--anything--using this program. Though I was a bit skeptical at first that just about anybody could podcast, I found that if taken in small steps, producing a podcast can be very simple. Downloading audacity and recording "test" recordings of our voices was the class's first step...and soon we will be well on our way to producing a podcast!

Before I can enjoy producing a podcast, I think I will have to get over hearing the strange way my voice sounds after it is recorded. To me, my voice sounds completely different when I'm talking normally than it does when I listen to it on the recording. Since I thought it sounded strange the first time I heard my voice on the recording, I actually asked my roommates, "Do I really sound like that?" My roommates told me that I sound similar to that, but my voice sounds a little bit higher on the recording than it does in real life. So, once I get over the initially strange factor of hearing my voice on the recording, I think producing a podcast will become much easier! After all, I will have to hear my voice constantly while producing a podcast when editing, adding music, etc!

On the other hand, listening to my classmate's recordings was very interesting and not very strange. I think it wasn't strange for me because as a society, we hear recorded voices of others all the time (from television to radio), so hearing my classmates' recorded voices was not unusual. I thought it was very interesting, and I really liked the editing that Sam used on his recording. I didn't even think to try that on my recording, but now I really want to experiment with some editing techniques!

All in all, this experience in recording my voice and listening to my classmates' recordings was a little strange, fun, and interesting!