Monday, June 11, 2012

Good Night Moon (audio recording experiment)...



I've been experimenting. Yes. With the the Mac computer. It's so much fun that I really must share with you all about it. To begin with, the inspiration all started with my DIL, J, who said she would like a CD  of some of the old folk songs that our own children grew up with, but she couldn't find any recordings that she particularly liked. I mentioned that perhaps I could figure out how to record onto the Mac and see what I could do. J seemed receptive of the idea, and so began the experiment.

FourthBorn, S, helped me get started with Garage Band, a program on the Mac, but we had some difficulties with it so later on I  searched the web for help and I found it! Yay! So all by myself, I figured out how to record my voice and save it to iTunes. Now, any time I want to make a disc or send a recording to my children or grands, I can.

For the first experiment, I used the grandgirls' favorite book, Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. The recording turned out so crisp and clean. I was thrilled! The more I play with Garage Band, the more I am realizing what I can do. I could add some nice background music to my storybook reading if I wanted to,  but I haven't tried that yet. The next thing I wanted to do was to see if I could actually upload my audio storybook to the internet. I did more web searching and found gobs of ideas, but one of the simplest websites I found for this was Vocaroo. It is so easy -- you can RECORD your voice on Vocaroo and then get the code to embed it on your blog. How fun is that? All you need is a microphone within your computer -- most newer computers do.  I hope you'll try it. Just think of all the possibilities! It's going to be so easy to make recordings for our children and grandchildren. Sound like fun?  I hope you try it.

So.....  tum ta ta da daaaaaa.....here is a sampling of my first-ever digital recording.   Here's me, Gram, reading Good Night Moon to my Littles.  Click below.


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18 comments:

  1. How fun! I love your voice. It sounds EXACTLY how I thought it would! When I get my new Mac next week, I'll send you a recording of me reading Each Peach, Pear, Plum, okay?

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  2. Oh that is so great. I will have to try that for my grands.
    You sound wonderful!!

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  3. What fun that was, Jody! This is a grand idea for your family. I think everybody should do this. Maybe I'll record my kids' book I wrote, one chapter at a time. Hmm.

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  4. That turned out perfect! It sounds like you are right here in the room with me and I love hearing your voice. That is really neat.

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  5. I loved it! It was like being tucked into bed and having a wonderful book read to me personally :)....great idea, thanks for letting us know about it.

    I love your voice, Jody! What fun!

    Ruth

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  6. I love hearing your voice, Jody! This is such great technology. We can start sending spoken word messages to all our blogging friends. Fun!

    I think "Goodnight Moon" is one of the most sublime children's story ever written. It was grand to hear you read it.

    xofrances

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  7. This is a GREAT idea! I love it, and it was fun to hear your voice :) The Margaret Wise Brown book we had to read the most in our house was The Big Red Barn. I used to have that memorized.

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  8. What a lovely soothing voice you have Jody! Ah, I feel like going back to bed now, zzzzzzzzz :)

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  9. What a wonderful idea! You sound like the perfect Grandmother.

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  10. You are all so nice. I think it might be fun to try to read with the Littles on my lap and see what other types of voices would come up on the recording. More of a "live performance" type of thing.

    Jody

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  11. Yes, yes! Oh, thank you for sharing how you got on with this blessed project.

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  12. You are coolest smartest granny in the wide world! I love this idea -- so fun! I can't listen to your recording on the iPad but will listen tomorrow on the real computer -- cant wait.
    Hugs,
    G

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  13. I love that you are a hard-working country girl and high tech guru all wrapped up in one! Never heard of this but what a fabulous idea! You sound great.


    Angie

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  14. Love your voice! Wish you'd try reading one of your favorite stories or books (public domain ones only) for www.librivox.org.
    Love to stop by your blog also!

    Elsie

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  15. Oh, this is wonderful, Jody! So comforting...

    Monica

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  16. Elsie,

    I have often thought about recording for Librivox. Now that I'm a retired homeschool mom, I might give it a try.

    You're all so nice.

    Jody

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  18. This is terrifice; thanks for sharing.

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