Making My Radio Jingle From The Start continued...

It is essential that all of the volumes are at the right level to get a good quality sound in which emphysis is put on a number of tracks at certain times. For example the talking (radio presenting) has to be louder than the bed track. If the volume is tii high on a certain track the sound may become fuzzy and distorted therefore decreasing its quality. This can be seen by this icon

When ever the red part is seen on the bar above it means that it is too loud, orange is acceptable and green is good. I have ensured that on all of my tracks the volume never reaches the red. To do this i have had to lower the volume on many of the other tracks which led to a successful outcome.

To add a new track which is not an intstrument i used the toolbar below in which I dragged and drop whatever i wanted and then re-arranged it to the correct position.

However for the voice clips I used a handheld voice recoreder which has a better recording quality than that of on the computers. I cut the voice clip into sections and then inserted them into the position that I wanted. This was where no loud and earcatching music was playing so that the voice of the presenter was heard clearly, a bed track was used to make sure that there was no silence at the time of the talking. I fould that the voice clip was however still boring and plain so I decided to put an effect on it so that it was a little more interesting. To do this I used the bar on the right hand side of the image below. The 'i' button shows the toolbar if it disapears.

By clicking on the 'vocals' button a large selection of effects are shown, these change the vocal effect, to find my prefered one i simply tried them all out to see which one i thought was the best.

Once I thought that I was finished I pulled over some people who had not yet heard it and got there opinion. The crisism was very constructive and I used there notes to change my jingle around slightly. The main problem was to do with volumes being to high or low in certain places.

This is what the majority of the project looked like at the finished satge just before exporting the clip. As you can see the two orange bars are my voice presenting the show and what is going to occur in at the start of it. These two orange bars only have 3 other tracks at the same time at the most, in which these tracks are often fading out or fading in. The electric piano draws attention to the show just before the talking starts so that everybody hears who's show it is and then what is happening in it. Afterwards I had to export the soundclip from a garage band file into a MP3 file. This binds all of the Instruments and tracks into a singular file which is a much smaller size than that of the garage band one.