Software Digital Audio Work Stations - Community Radio
I have to admit that when price is an issue that audacity does have it
hands down and for doing simple podcast editing its great for the $ or
the lack there of doesn’t require as much cpu grunt or memory as most
DAW’s and will even run on something as unstable as windows Wink
without missing a beat, pun intended. But for anything more serious it just doesn’t cut it. I have had a
play with Adobe Audition in the past and it makes a whole lot more
sense, even down to time compression expansion, varying clip
boundaries, fade in/fade out and variable curves (all non linear) that
either can be done in audacity albeit with some undoing trying again
till you get it right. A proper DAW would really help a station in the
long run and is worth the dollars spent on it And of course steering clear of lossy formats at every step of the
process is a plus as well (sometimes unavoidable) after all some STL’s
use lossy compression as the transport, re compressing already lossy
compressed audio is something you want to avoid. I do like the IDEA of Pro Tools LE with an audio interface. It really
should be the foundation for good solid production work. Always good to “have the tools” for the job.
hands down and for doing simple podcast editing its great for the $ or
the lack there of doesn’t require as much cpu grunt or memory as most
DAW’s and will even run on something as unstable as windows Wink
without missing a beat, pun intended. But for anything more serious it just doesn’t cut it. I have had a
play with Adobe Audition in the past and it makes a whole lot more
sense, even down to time compression expansion, varying clip
boundaries, fade in/fade out and variable curves (all non linear) that
either can be done in audacity albeit with some undoing trying again
till you get it right. A proper DAW would really help a station in the
long run and is worth the dollars spent on it And of course steering clear of lossy formats at every step of the
process is a plus as well (sometimes unavoidable) after all some STL’s
use lossy compression as the transport, re compressing already lossy
compressed audio is something you want to avoid. I do like the IDEA of Pro Tools LE with an audio interface. It really
should be the foundation for good solid production work. Always good to “have the tools” for the job.
Posted on Sunday December 13th
