For my next audio assignment I did Make Your Own Ringtone which was worth two stars.   The instructions for this assignment were “trim, join end-to-end (cut/paste), and/or play side-by-side audio files in order to create your very own ringtone. Ringtones should be a maximum or 40 seconds to conserve phone memory (besides, most cell phones don’t ring longer than 30 seconds or so…the extra 10 seconds is just in case). Be creative, you might want to actually use it on your phone.”

I got excited for this one when I saw it.  I love the idea of mash-ups so I was excited to do a short one for my ringtone.  I played around for a little while with different songs and ended up coming across a video of Taylor Swift doing a mash up of her song Stay Stay Stay and the song Ho Hey by the Lumineers at her concert.  I totally loved it and decided to try to do these two songs for my ringtone.

Isn’t that great? Obviously mine wasn’t quite as creative and smooth as hers since I just combined the two recordings of the the songs but I am pretty pleased with how it turned out.

I ended up importing Stay Stay Stay first.  I wanted the songs to overlap a little so I ended up cutting the end of the chorus (which is purely instrumental) and repeating it three times at the end.  I then imported Ho Hey and lined that up right after the words of Stay Stay Stay ended.  I then faded out Stay Stay Stay after Ho Hey began.

Here is what the finished product looked like in audacity.

And here is what the final product sounded like.

Hope you like it! One more star to go!