Audacity audio editing

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

This is a free download. It's easy to operate. It looks like a big tape recorder.

There are several versions. I couldn't get 1.2...version to work on my computer, so I uninstalled that and downloaded the 1.3..... version, instead.

I'm suggesting this because the Production dept. at KUNM recommended it over SAW32, as it's free and it's going to become the standard for the journalism & communications dept. at UNM. Both Elaine Bomgartle and Tristan Clum will be teaching universtity classes on Audacity in the fall.

It has an excellent tutorial & help menu and is user friendly.

This is the audio editing program I first suggested PWD Radio use.

Download it and fool around with it.

Don't "Save As." just open it. It'll put a shortcut icon on your desktop.

Find a .wav format sound file you can fool with.

After Audacity opens, go to "file" and press "open"

Load your sound file and play around with it.

Make it a small sound file -- not an hour or so -- so it'll load quickly.
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Rogi Riverstone