All of the audio inside of the radio show is mono audio, this means that the sound will come out of both speakers. This could mean earphones, headphones, speakers or even phone speakers, where as stereo only sends the audio to one of these, either the left or right.
Here is how I controlled the audio levels for each of my channels, this meant I could bring in all of my sounds together as one. All of the sounds should work together as one, nothing louder than the other and nothing too quiet, apart from the background track. If any audio was too loud it would create a distorted noise meaning that the audio was clipping.
Audio Effects
This effect was used on my jingle to create a bigger sound, leaving the guitar to sound like it was being played in a garage and it is still reverberating after the sound had finished. The delay was also used to create a dreamy sound which kept repeating itself inside the sound. This fits the conventions of a radio show as they use delays and reverbs in their own jingles, BBC 6 Music is are well known for doing this.
This part of the audio is the intro, greeting the listeners by letting them know they are tuned into Sheffield's Underground Sounds. I have brought up the levels of the audio by 8 D.B so that it is not only clearer but louder so that it is a comfortable listen for fans tuned in. I have also added some EQ to the vocals adding more mid range, taking out a tiny bit of bass and keeping the highs where they are, this makes the audio a lot clearer as if it was a professional radio station.
This next part is where Jackie Moonbathers song 'Parallel ' plays, I haven't had to add any effects to the song I have only had to turn it down a bit almost as if I was mastering the show already, this just means that the listener doesn't have to turn down the show as the song is louder than the speaking before, it makes it all one volume which also makes the show more professional.Here is a screenshot of Jackie Moonbathers song Parallel, here I am shortening the duration of the song so that I am not playing the whole song as it is a short radio station, this allows me to cut down the part of the song I want the listeners to hear on the station and also saves a lot of time as it has been cut down.
This is where I have cut down the song and below I have added fades in and out of the backing music playing throughout. This allows the stations sound to run smoothly rather than instant cuts in and out of songs. I have also added a fade to the actual song so that it doesn't hit with instant sound, it fades into the song making it a lot easier to listen to and also more comfortable throughout the show rather than making the listeners jump through volume levels.
Here I am collecting all the audio and pulling it back into place from where the previous audio finishes, I am doing this so that it all runs smoothly for the listener and doesn't have a 10 second time gap between the audios. This shows I am following the conventions of a real radio station as their broadcasts run smoothly start to end, with no time gaps and keeping the flow start to end.
Here I am adding the background music and repeating it the until the audio of the the host (me) finishes, I am also editing the tack with fades in and out when songs are about to be played so that two songs aren't playing at one moment, this also shows I am following the conventions of a radio station as they have fades in and out of the backing music when songs are about to be played and then fades back in once the song is finished.
The jingle I have created is a short guitar part I wrote then I recorded it into my Focusrite 2i2 interface which recorded it straight into my software Ableton Live. I then recorded another lead guitar over the other piece and used reverb and delay on the both of them so it gave it a really fat dreamy sound which fits perfectly with my radio station as the show is very laidback as it is broadcasted at 21:00. Once I had mixed the levels and sounds of the guitar parts I then went onto record some simple vocals over the top it, I say "Sheffields Underground Sounds, bringing you the finest new music, 93.2." I added EQ Three to the vocals with a midnight effect, giving it a crunchy and dreamy sound effect, I am happy with how the jingle came out because it has an all round laidback yet significant sound as it stands out from the show and listeners will instantly understand it is a jingle. This shows I am following the conventions of a radio station as I am stating the name of the station so that listeners know what station they are tuned into, for example BBC 6 Music have heavy hitting jingles and then state the name of the station.The difficulties I had overall during the editing and recording of my radio show were never ending, for example the levels of the audio throughout was very difficult to keep the same from start to end as I recorded my show in a few sittings, the volumes were always different and the quality always changed. however, I managed to make the show sound as live as possible using levels and EQs on each individual audio recording to have it run smoothly and sound like it had been recording in one sitting. I also struggled with the EQ Eight I added to the phone interview, it made the tone of the recording sound extremity tinny and brought the highs up to a point they started clipping which meant the audio started to distort, overcame this issue by lowering the gain and adding slightly more mid-range to the audio which left me with a smoother running telephone interview. The final problem i had while recording my radio show was offline samples, this means that some of the clips had gone missing from the Ableton project and this happened many times throughout the editing stage, I overcame this by either re-recording the show or looking through the recorded samples in the project file, they were sometimes there but if not then I had to re-record
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