HOW TO RIP HIGH QUALITY AUDIO FILES WITH AUDACITY
Struggling to download something that you just can’t find? Have you found the file on YouTube, but you’re in need of a reliable converter? Well, guess what? You don’t even need a converter! All you need is the ability to play the audio you need, the program Audacity, and a few minutes of your spare time.
First Thing’s First: Acquire the Program!
If you don’t have Audacity, a simple google search will change that. Get the program first, ya dingus! It’s what we’re using to record.
Second: Change the Source of Where the Program Records Audio From
By default, the program might pick up audio from your microphone. Well, we can change that! We can change it so that instead of your mic, the program records the audio of whatever sound is coming from your computer. For me, the option I need looks like this:
Stereo Mix. This way it won’t pick up my voice, it won’t pick up any extra noise. ONLY what your computer plays. You should do a little practice recording if you’re not sure if you got the right one.
Third: Block Out Unneeded Sounds
- THIS STEP IS VERY IMPORTANT!!
If you leave something extra on such as Skype’s little blips or MSN’s ‘hey you got a message bub!’ noise, IT WILL TAKE AWAY FROM THE QUALITY OF YOUR RECORDING. Namely, most of the bass. I don’t know why it does this, but all you have to do is mute the sound from those programs until you’re done.
Get that shit muted, yo!
And don’t forget to ADD THE HIGH QUALITY AUDIO CODE TO THE END OF YOUR YOUTUBE VIDEO: &fmt=18
Fourth: CRANK THAT SHIT UP!!
Max out your volume as much as you can. This includes all of your sound options AND YOUR YOUTUBE VIDEO!!
- THAT BEING SAID, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU DO YOUR RECORDING WHILE WEARING A PAIR OF HEADPHONES AROUND YOUR NECK. YOU’RE MAXING EVERYTHING YOU CAN, YOU DON’T NEED BLOWN OUT EARDRUMS TOO!
Fifth: Start your Recording and Start your Playback
Start recording in Audacity. There will be a little block of silence but you can trim that off. Anyway. All you have to do now is play whatever you want to record! If it’s an entire song, just wait the entire song, and stop the recording when it’s done. If you did everything right, you should have a stereo-sound, high quality rip of whatever you wanted! Now you can trim it and export it as an .mp3, .wav, whatever you want. Keep in mind though, the quality of your file will depend on the quality of the video itself!! I’d look for official video links if I were you.
Sixth: Wow wow wow we’re done wow!!
That’s all ya gotta do. Just remember to mute what needs to be muted, not to have the loud sound directly on your years, and don’t stop recording/don’t stop the video till it’s done!
This doesn’t just work for YouTube though- it works for ANY sound your computer makes. So you could play an epsidoe of something and record some dialogue, you could record audio from a game you’re playing, anything you want!!
Included as an audio file in this post is an example of what a clean rip would sound like straight from an official video!
hey so tumblr audio has been a SHIT lately since u cant fkin get music anymore w/ addons, so i thought i’d bring this back just in case
All right, so, here’s a neat little trick that maybe not a lot of people know about Paint Tool Sai - the fact that with one little button you can turn ANY tool into an eraser version of the same tool!!
Why is this useful?
Here’s an example of some pen tool lines:
Now let’s erase a little bit with the default eraser tool.
Zoomed in you can see that the erase line isn’t very clean compared to the rest of the pen line!! This can get annoying when you’re working, especially on lineart. The eraser doesn’t have the same crisp line as the pen does, even on it’s hardest setting, but that can change!!
Okay, how do I do it?
Let’s look at the area next to your color wheel:
You’ve got your select tools, eyedropper, color wheel itself, things to move around. And you’ve also got this funny little guy right here:
He’s the one that makes the magic happen!! Turn this guy on with a click. You’ll know he’s selected if he looks like this:
Now that we’ve selected him, we click back to our pen tool (or whichever tool you’re lining/coloring with). Draw with it. The lines should disappear, because you’ve just turned that own tool into it’s very own eraser!!
As you can see the line is a lot crisper to match the same kind of crispness that the tool originally gave (actually it’s hard to tell here, it’s more noticable when you do it yourself).
Does it really work with every tool?
As far as I know, yes!! Although tools like marker tend to not work as well.
Now you don’t have to add extra types of erasers or even an extra 0% opacity binary, because you can just click this tool!! Saves a lot of custom brush slots.
Enjoy!
This has been a short tutorial.
Rebloggin’ for the afternoon!
say you drew a box and you want this box to become, I don’t know, a building:
and you want to divide the sides of the box in half, so you can know where to put the windows and doors and whatever! if you eyeball it, you’re probably going to miss the halfway point, and it will look stupid:
that is incorrect. if you want to bisect a side of a box in perspective, try doing this instead:
1. draw x’s connecting the corners of each side of the box
2.draw a line through the exact center of the x’s, running parallel to the edges of that side
3. that’s it. now you have perfectly bisected sides, so you know where to draw your doors or anything else that this box might have on it.
but that’s not all!
you can do the exact same thing to the new faces you created, if you want to divide the sides up further.
sploosh
keep going!
you can draw so many doors or windows or anything! I don’t care what you draw, it’s your box.
this is one of the best time-saving tips I’ve ever come across. do you need an entire perspective grid? the x method has you covered!
let’s make a simple one-point perspective grid:
draw a square, figure out where the center of vision will be (hint: for one point perspective, it’s always smack dab in the center of the side facing you).
draw a bigger square around that square.
connect the corners of these two squares, so it looks like an open box.
USE THAT X-METHOD
MORE SUBDIVISIONS
DRAW LINES THROUGH THE CENTER OF THE X’S TO GET YOUR VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL GUIDES
NOW DRAW YOUR DIAGONAL GUIDES (the corresponding sides of your two squares must be divided equally, into an equal number of segments. connect these segments to get your diagonal guides).
baby you got a stew going!
the x-method might not be 100% correct in every case, but it’s great for just getting stuff done and making it look right. I made that entire one-point grid in under ten minutes. now if I want to draw a room, I have easy-to-follow guidelines and they only took a little bit of time to make.
the x-method comes from Perspective! for Comic Book Artists, which you should read because it is amazing. read the shit out of it.
PLEASE READ THIS
All tutorials made by lishlitz at deviantart
- Pattern Page 1
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- Tutorial Page 1
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- Tutorial Page 4
Scalemate Tutorial
(PS. I may have a link to the one by 5eyes but since Hussie had requested to take it down I’m reluctant to give out the link.)This is like a master post for making homestuck dolls :D
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