Impressed...as usual

You know, this is my fourth year working with the Weekday High School Internship Program (or WeHigh), and each year I continue to be impressed with how quickly the interns pick up the tricks of the trade.

Take yesterday, for example. We did our first lesson on audio editing, never an easy or particularly fun lesson. We (Brad Iverson-Long, or Iv-Lo, and myself) were teaching the interns Adobe Audition, now the industry standard for audio editing. It's a complicated program, even for those of us who have been cutting and fading for some time now (that's NOT a drug reference). But after just an hour of playing around with the program, everyone seemed to have picked up the basics.

They were cutting together and polishing a fake radio program Brad and I threw together just for practice purposes. Here's the raw audio, and this is what it sounds like after some rough editing (to download, scroll to the the bottom of the linked pages, also think they will only stay active for 30 days).

Oh and by the way, the music we grabbed from our friends at KEXP. The songs are I Wish that I could see you soon by Herman Dune and Fools by The Dodos.

Want to try your hand at audio editing? You can download a free 30 day trial of Audition from their website.