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My college roommate once told me I had a face for radio so that is the approach I took with this project.

I decided to do my best DJ impression and have some fun with this project.

I began by finding copyright free music on a website called "Jamendo." My radio station is "DVL".. So I picked a song by the Sons of Sin.

After selecting the music, I imported the track "The Dream" into Audacity.

I then proceeded with my DJ impersonation and introduced the tune.

At first I had the moved the starting point of the song to begin about 1.5 seconds after I began talking and it sounded good, but then I decided that was too easy.. so I tried more effects.

I moved the track to begin at the same point as my narrative and used the "Fade In" effect for the first 3 seconds of the song.

Realizing Audacity had many other features I decided to explore the program further.

I experimented with the pitch feature.. first lowering it all the way to "C" hoping I could make my voice sound like Josh Turner or Johnny Cash, but it just sounded garbled. I decided to go the other way and raise the pitch. After changing the pitch, I sounded like I just inhalled helium or was the leader of the Munckin's. I thought it was cool, so I left it.

Deciding I wanted to take it one step further, I looked at other effects and decided I wanted to use reverb. That effect is placed at the beginning of the track so it sounds like I am speaking in a big empty room, in reality I am sitting about a foot from the computer microphone.

I was thinking about taking it one step further, so i started playing with the reverse feature. This feature was cool, but I don't know how I would use it in my project. I may go pull some of my Black Sabbath mp3 and play them backwards just for the fun of it.

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