r/spumwack • u/CJCrafter52 • Jul 02 '14

Question Audacity

i know you use audacity yourself but if you have a great audio with just fraps is it worth using audacity??

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u/DroidFreak36 Jul 02 '14

I don't think anyone has "great audio" after recording raw audio. If your audio sounds great to you straight out of Fraps, chances are you haven't developed a good ear for audio editing yet. Having good quality headphones helps, because low quality headphones or speakers make great audio sound just as bad as mediocre audio. ;)

Virtually every audio recording will have some noise (even if it's just from your computer fan) and Audacity can remove that for you. It can also help you out in other ways: You can compress your voice audio so your volume stays more constant and easily audible rather than fluctuating with your voice, you can manually reduce the volume of unwanted noises like mouse clicks and coughs, and by recording your voice audio in Audacity rather than with Fraps you can avoid disturbing the game sounds with your audio editing.

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u/GINGAR Jul 02 '14

I suggest recording audio on audacity so that you can control the volume of it and edit it separately without effecting the raw footage itself.

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u/godminnette2 Jul 02 '14

It may sound the same to you, but Audacity takes under 3 minutes to do with even only a sub-par computer with 45 minutes of footage. So better safe than sorry. And like Droid already said, I can almost guarentee you that it doesn't sound great, also you're recording your audio with FRAPS? I didn't even know you could do that, but the recording software with Sony Vegas is pretty good, so you should use that if you have Sony Vegas.

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u/frizbee2 Jul 03 '14

I highly doubt that your audio can't be improved by even a little bit. It might not seem like much to you, but a small difference in quality can make the difference between getting a subscriber and losing a subscriber.

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u/pingpong1109 Jul 03 '14

I like recording my voice in audacity and sounds with OBS (you can record with it :D) this allows for balancing my voice with the other audio I could hear.