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I noticed something about Peeps tunes.

johnnygnote	Date: December 6, 2003 @ 5:15 PM While I was listening to some tunes today I noticed that several people have quite a bit of silence before and after the songs. I would like to recommend that people look in to an audio editor to trim the silence off the beginning and end of songs (wav files). It helps with space and the listening of the tune. I use Acoustica which is free for 20 days and costs 29 bucks very reasonable and great support from the writer Stian Aegendal you can get it here http://www.aconas.com/ If you don't want to pay for an editor, another good one is Audacity, I also use it. It's free, you can get it here http://audacity.sourceforge.net/index.php?lang=en Audacity offers a version for Linux, go to Linux/Unix on thier main page and then use the "Source Code" links. Both editors are easy to use and offer a magnification of the area you are working on so you can fine tune your starts and endings. I hope no one takes offence to this, it's just a friendly suggestions to you newcomers to digital recording and to you oldtimers who just may not have known
sinai	Date: December 6, 2003 @ 5:56 PM or you can use Cakewalk Home Studio for that, juss upload the .wav or .mp3 file into it, and trimming excess is as easy as sliding the m ouse
sixstrngstru...	Date: December 6, 2003 @ 6:13 PM yea i use cool edit pro its easy
KevBrock	Date: December 6, 2003 @ 7:17 PM HHmmmm, maybe some musicians want the silent before and after the song as part of the song? Songwriters aren't stupid and they know what they are doing. In certain songs, silence is needed. Maybe they want some silence to give their song time to fade in? If there is silence after the song, maybe they want to give it time for silence to fade out? Songwriters put silences in their songs for a reason.
invocati	Date: December 6, 2003 @ 7:25 PM But then again maybe not Kevbrock. Could go either way.
woodhead	Date: December 6, 2003 @ 7:50 PM true invocati, I always cut the silence from the begining and the end, if nothing is happening cut it.
KevBrock	Date: December 6, 2003 @ 8:18 PM None of my songs on my page have silence in the begginning and the end except for my cover of "Hurt". The silence in that is needed because it's my way of making the guitar come in.
johnnygnote	Date: December 7, 2003 @ 4:44 AM Actually most songwriters aren't computer savy, I've been writing songs for over 40 years, and working with computers for 25. I understand the difference between creative silence, fades and just plain wasted space. Sorry KevBrock I was just pointing out the fact that I noticed some wasted space in songs. Just some constructive criticism.
RancidFish	Date: December 10, 2003 @ 4:52 AM Lucky for us, we Electronic artists don't have to worry about that. All the silence in our songs is silence we put there. Heheh...
trillcitypoet	Date: December 10, 2003 @ 6:45 AM cool-edit 2.0 easily done.
soundsseeker	Date: December 10, 2003 @ 7:00 AM mp3trim and wav trim are a couple of good trimmers also. chck them out here http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
Jesuszilla	Date: December 10, 2003 @ 7:48 PM I make a unique kind of music where it's silence all the way through.
furiousBall	Date: December 10, 2003 @ 7:54 PM ahh the original "alternative" music
popdem	Date: December 10, 2003 @ 8:20 PM that's awesome jesuszilla... i'm jammin ur tunes all the time!!!
johnnygnote	Date: December 10, 2003 @ 8:29 PM Jesuszilla
Rennette	Date: December 11, 2003 @ 4:24 AM JZ, I have such a track right here on my artist page.
alienhead	Date: December 11, 2003 @ 11:54 AM cool-edit pro 2.0 works great!

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