Experimenting with Music

As I talked about in one of my previous posts- A Memory of Music, I may want to include various songs that I have heard and come to love from my journeys around Menorca. I also said about placing a radio filter effect over this sound so that it would sound more authentic to how I remember it. Today I experimented with trying to make the Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger sound as if it was being played from a radio. Using the audio editing software Audacity, I applied two main effects to the music, Equalisation and a High Pass Filter. Equalisation allows you to amplify some sound frequencies whilst dampening others. This effect happens naturally on radio due to decrease in sound quality as it is transmitted. A High Pass Filter allows you to cut-off certain levels of frequency and reduces these frequencies that are lower than the set cut-off frequency. For the sake of this experiment I set the frequency cut-off quite high at 2000Hz in order to replicate the loss of sound quality found in radio. By combining these effects, the frequencies in the music are amplified and then restricted- resulting in a muffled sound. Below are the results:

And for comparison, below is the original song on YouTube:

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Giggs, J. (2015) Menorcan Rocks. Unpublished Photograph.

Survivor, 1982. Eye of the Tiger. In: Eye of the Tiger [Online]. Scotti Brothers Records [viewed 5th March 2017]. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4

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