CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

Me and my sister both have a bit of an acting flair and we were considering undertaking a fun project: Recording a book using our computer. I was thinking that if I'm going to take the time to record a book on tape (It takes ALOT longer than you'd think.) then I'd want to be able to layer sound (maybe compose a piano song and play it in the background), cut out any portion of the recording I didn't want, I'd want to be able to insert any sound clip into the recording, and I'd want to be able to record it onto a cd. I know I'd need a cd rewriter to record it onto a cd, but can any of you suggest a recording program that would be capable of doing the above (and if you could give me a ball park estimate on what it'd cost?) Thanks a million for any help you can offer!

In a word: GoldWave. A license costs $45, but it's well worth it. The evaluation version is absolutely free to try, though it has a "toll counter" which lets you excecute 150 commands before you have to close and restart the program (which can be somewhat annoying). Take a look; hope it helps! ^_^

GoldWave, eh? Hmmm, I'll take a look. Thanks a million, MelodyMaker.

Nice, Osaka! I love audio drama! So do we get to hear it when you're done? And if you need any tips about audio editing, several of us kicking around here can help out, I'm sure.

Gypsy wrote:Nice, Osaka! I love audio drama! So do we get to hear it when you're done? And if you need any tips about audio editing, several of us kicking around here can help out, I'm sure.

Sure, you can hear it when it's done. It might be a while though. Free time has been a bit of rare creature as of late.

And I won't hestitate to ask for help, thanks!

Heheheheh.

I once tried to record Lewis Carrols "The Hunting of the Snark" onto .wav files (aaah, the days before MP3s) but I turned out to be so extremely perfectionistic that it took about a day to record the first "Fit" ("Snark" is an agony in Eight fits...go figure). I went about the poem one line at a time, re-recording it over and over and over until I abandoned it because my audio equipment (a stupid little microphone that came free with the PC) was insufficient. And it was time consuming.

Still I enjoyed doing it.

Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge is a really good program for that sorta thing, i'm not sure how much it costs, We got it free from our College & University.
Its got tons of stuff like Effects, Dynamic processing, cut/paste/duplicate sections use of playlists to remix tracks without changing the original waveform, etc. Its Top Notch