If you guys like piñatas, you like this podcast. I saw a post on Techannounce about Unidos por un mismo Idioma (the Spanish Speaking Society) and their piñata fest and I couldn’t pass up the story. I met with Jose Luis Calvillo, UMI’s secretary, in the student union building while he was making a piñata. He gave me some great info on the organization and their Piñata Fest event. If you have some time after Carol of Lights, I’d definitely recommend checking it out.
As far as the quality of the podcast, this episode suffers from buyer’s remorse as much as I do. To make sure I’d have a audio recorder on me at all times, I went off to Best Buy and picked up a voice recorder that touted an extra high quality setting, one more than any other recorder I saw. Extra high quality really isn’t all that great as I’ve learned, though. To make up for the downfall, I used audacity’s noise removal feature, it’s actually pretty easy to use. To use this feature, just highlight a part of the recording that has no voice, but still has the background noise you want removed. Then, with the noise removal feature on, press “get noise profile”, and then just highlight the rest of the recording and press “remove noise.” This did remove much of the background noise, but it also gave the recording a high-pitched sound. To counter this, I highlighted the recording and used the “bass boost” effect. What was produced isn’t perfect, but definitely an improvement.
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4 comments:
Cool idea and content! Pinatas are hilarious...who doesn't love a pinata?! We should bust one in class tomorrow! Yeah, like you said, there's a slight problem with the audio. I'd take that recorder back and tell Best Buy it Sucks! Good information on the specs of the pinatas. Aside from the technical problems, good job!
Good job covering something people probably haven't heard a lot about. I heard about it in my spanish class and it did sound interesting. There was the audio problem but it sounds like you did a good deal of work to try and make it better. Great topic and good job.
I heard about Pinata fest earlier before listening to this and think its kinda funny that you did a podcast over it. It is a cool and different idea. I like it. There is a small audio problem but you already knew that, good job of working around that. Overall a good job
I love pinatas, dude. I really do, and if I could tell you some of the stories involving me and pinatas..... Anyway, good stuff. You've done a great job of editing the content, and the sound is on-key. Well-done.
-Ron
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