Re: The starling's song: Valdyan -> Jarrda

On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 23:15:06 -0700, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:

>Very lovely, Herman.  I hope you won't mind reminding me how you
>made them so economically.  MP3 seems to be the sound software
>of choice, but I thought you had recommended RealProducer.  Did
>you?
>
>How did you get the echo?
>
>Sally
I still use an old version of the software, which was called RealAudio
Encoder. I'm assuming that RealProducer is roughly similar. I use the
compression that is described as "RealAudio 3.0 - ISDN Mono", which has a
frequency response of 11 kHz (more or less equivalent to a 22 kHz sample
rate) and a bit rate of 40Kbps (which translates to about 300K per minute
of audio).

The echo was added with Cool Edit. I tried a combination of echo chamber
and reverb effects until I found one that sounded good; I don't remember
the exact settings. (The real reason for the echo is to hide the annoying
imperfections in my singing voice!)

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