Recording at a slower or faster Playback Speed

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Recording at a slower or faster Playback Speed

Post by Sevah » Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:42 pm

I've been working with audacity for just a little while, but after looking around here, I haven't found it.

I have been working with original soundtracks, and i noticed some sound more interesting when the playback is set faster or slower.
I want to record these soundtracks with the playback speed set (at say 0.70 or at 1.35). I know it should shorten or legthen the song, so is there instead a way to "stretch" or "compress" the entire sound track instead of recording it at a different playback speed?

Thanks for any feedback, and i wasn't sure if this would be some kind of recording technique.

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Re: Recording at a slower or faster Playback Speed

Post by steve » Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:00 pm

Use Audacity 1.3.5 and select "change tempo" from the effects menu.
Note that the more you stretch it, the worse the sound quality will become.
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Re: Recording at a slower or faster Playback Speed

Post by Sevah » Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:57 pm

All right! Thanks alot! I actually found that instead choosing the Change speed instead of using the Tempo change is what i wanted.

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Re: Recording at a slower or faster Playback Speed

Post by steve » Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:00 pm

Sevah wrote:I actually found that instead choosing the Change speed... is what i wanted.
Oh that's good. There is very little loss in sound quality using "Change Speed", since it's just resampling and does not need to stretch the sound.
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