HOW BUNNY SPARBER RECORDS HIS MUSIC
Bunny likes to do things quickly and cheaply, and so he has developed a technique for recording his songs using items he has on hand. The sound quality might not be the best, but it is an effective, fast, and dirty way to create an MP3 he can share. This is the technique he uses:
1. Bunny records the songs into a Casio Exilim digital camera set to record digital video.
2. Bunny transfers the video to his desktop (he uses an Apple).
3. Bunny opens the video in Quicktime and then exports the audio as an AIF file.
4. Bunny transfers the AIF file into Audacity, trims off any extraneous recording at the start or end of the file, and then uses the "normalize" filter.
5. Bunny then exports the song as a WAV file.
6. Bunny imports the WAV file into Garage Band. Here he adds a little reverb and typically some echo and checks the output levels.
7. Bunny exports the file into iTunes. There he converts it into an MP3.
8. Bunny imports this new MP3 into Audacity, runs the "normalize" filter again and then the "equalization filter" (typically set for "acoustic"). He then runs the "amplify" filter, so his song won't play too quietly.
9. Bunny re-exports the MP3. He then uploads it to the Web to Google sites so he can share a flash version of it (which he embeds using this Flash MP3 player) and Mediafire for a downloadable version. The Flash player Bunny uses on this site can be found here.
There are certainly other, and better, ways to do this, but Bunny has been doing it this way for so long that he can generally have a new recording uploaded to the Web a few minutes after he has finished writing it.
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