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error. Every so often, save your ?le (like you would if you were
editing a Word document). Again, you use Export As MP3…
Once you’ve edited the ?le so you sound perfect all the way
through, you’re ready for the next stage. Firstly, select all (Ctrl and
a) and then copy that track (Ctrl and c). You’re going to place it in
a new window in a minute.
On the menu select File and Open… and open the Earth.mp3
track you created earlier. Now here’s the tricky bit: click on the
record button (the big red one), it will open a new audio track,
and almost immediately stop recording (by pressing the yellow
square).
Now place the cursor in
this new track and move
it to the very beginning
(you can use the side
arrow on your keyboard).
Then paste (Ctrl and v)
the recording of you (the
one we just copied) into
that blank track. You may
?nd the Earth recording
is much longer than your
speaking track. You can
shorten the length of the
Earth recording by cutting
any excess (Ctrl and x).
If you play it now, you
will hear the music in the
background and you talking.
The ?nal stage is what they
call “mixing down”, the
merging of the two tracks into
the ?nal product that you can
burn onto a CD and give to
a client. Stop playing, if you
were, and click anywhere on
a track and press Ctrl and a;
this selects both recordings.
From the menu select Project
and Quick Mix. Once this
Creating a look
for your CDs
When a client takes home your CD, you want it to look
professional, but not necessarily pay out lots of money for
labels to be printed. One way round this is to use a system,
such as the NEATO CD/DVD Labelling System, only £14.99
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