To get to my goal of 5 stars worth of audio assignments from the ds106 assignment bank, I did a 2 star rated assignment: Make Your Own Ringtone.  I chose this mainly because of the few songs I’ve had stuck in my head the past few days.  They were all pretty similar sounding, so I wanted to make a ringtone using clips from each one.

I opened Audacity and loaded the three songs I wanted to use from my iTunes library: Radioactive by Imagine Dragons, Raise Your Weapon by Deadmau5, and Young Blood by the Naked and Famous.  I trimmed each song to the part I wanted to use and lined them up so that Radioactive played first, then Raise Your Weapon, and finally Young Blood.

The transition between Radioactive and Raise Your Weapon turned out a lot better than the one between Raise Your Weapon and Young Blood. Even though the singers change from male to female in the beginning, I think the actual melding together was pretty good. After I trimmed and aligned everything to sound the way I wanted (almost), I exported the file and uploaded it to soundcloud.  I liked this assignment, but it got pretty frustrating when I couldn’t get the transition the way I wanted it between the last 2 songs. Thinking back, maybe if I’d chosen a different part of the song, it would have sounded better. Personally, I wouldn’t use this as a ringtone, but only because I love the first song Radioactive so much, that I’d just want to listen to that the whole time!