User:PeterSampson

Peter Sampson's user page

Rework of "Tutorial - Your First Recording"

1) I think that Bill's material on Audacity setup on his draft page (minus the h/w plugs sockets etc.) is considerably better than the text that is currently in the Reference/Understanding - it doesn't say much that isn't there already but it does say it better, and it is more up to date. So I propose to update the Reference section withe Bill's Audacity s/w set-up stuff. I agree that the Reference section should focus on Audacity setup and not h/w setup.

2) As we agreed earlier I will atomize the YFR into its four basic sections.

3) Then update those four YFR sections taking material from Bill's draft page as appropriate.

4) When the YFR tutorials are looking in good shape I propose then to prune Reference/Understanding Audacity/Audacity Setup and Configuration - with pointer to where the h/w setup material can be viewed.

sub-tutorial headings

The following are the abbreviated sub-tutorial headings suggested by James. I propose to use thes headings, pending no further objections:

• Tutorial - Connecting Up
• Tutorial - Selecting Your Input
• Tutorial - A Test Recording
• Tutorial - Recording and Editing

Tutorial for CD remixing

This is a link to a draft tutorial for remixing a commercial CD: User:PeterSampson/Tutorial: Re-mixing a CD - Mock Up Version-1
This tutorial was originally written by Audacity user Chuck Moore ( Cfmoore1 ) who wanted to remix some Beatles 2009 Remastered CDs, the early ones which were originally mono but which the studio re-released in 2009 in a pseudo-stereo mix. The studio mix is indeed somewhat odd as it places the instruments on one side of the sound stage and the voices on the other. Sounds ok-ish on speakers if you don't listen closely - but sounds distictly odd on headphones. Chuck undertook for his debut project with Audacity a remix of Please Please Me and has recently finished With The Beatles. His objective was to create a more natural sound stage by taking sound clips and remixing (ambitious for a starter project). I gave him some help with this via the forum and through some PMs. I asked him if he would be good enough to write up his process as a tutorial; this is his draft (which I will Wiki-ise with Wiki markup formatting) - once that is done I will be seeking feedback from the manual "list". He says "I do not mind people putting their knives to what I wrote. The procedure is right but if the wording does not convey to the reader what I did then it needs to be changed."

• Peter 18Jun10: Following f/b from when I first floated tis tutorial idea I agree that it is not appropriate for the manual as it is too specific - accordingly.I will probbly transfer it to the Wiki.

Manual Front Page - TOC

This is a link to mock-up Version-10 of the proposed new Table of Contents for the Front Page of the manual: User:PeterSampson/Front Page Mock Up Version-10

The objective of this change was to give greater prominence and visibility to the Tutorials section of the manual. In order to achieve this we created links to the main tutorials in the TOC. Many thanks to Gale Andrews for his invaluable help in developing this proposal.

Gale implemented this V10 as an interim change on 23Jan2011. We still plan further work on the Front Page. Some discussion may be viewed on the V10 mock-up page linked to above. And in this forum thread: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=52190

Peter 26Jan11: I corrected the div id for the "Using Audacity" section. Following our recent TOC update the "Using Audacity" link in the navigation bar was not redirecting properly. My bad: when I created the expanded "Using Audacity" block, I "borrowed" the formatting/layout from Referece section - including its div id. :-(