Everyone enjoys music and everyone has their own taste in it. But no matter what people think about, there is one common thread with everyone who partakes in this past time, it is a catharsis which makes life seem a little less boring. That’s why you have the opportunity to listen to as much music as you want by converting your MP4 to MP3. Basically an MP4 is for video and audio, while an MP3 is just for audio.

You can convert dozens to audio formats to MP3, including AAC, OGG, and M4A. MPEG-1, MPEG-4, AVI, and MOV are just some of the MP3 extracted from MP4 to satisfy your listening pleasure. The MP4 to MP3 converter makes the files compatible to listen on a handful of MP3 music players. The files are compatible with Zune, iPod shuffles, iPod nanos, iRiver, and Creative Zen Vision. The files are converted with a Bitrate calculator which compresses any output file into any size. There are various adjustable parameters available in this program such as decoding CD, converting pointed segment to MP3, and converting multiples files at once.

This program is very easy to use and very user-friendly. All you need to do is load the source file and hit the convert button. While waiting for the conversion process to be completed, you can surf the web or continue doing your work because you have the option of running the program in background until the process is complete. When the conversion is done it will automatically perform the task complete actions.

To most people noise might just be noise, but in the audio world there’s more than one type of noise. The various types are named after colors, such as white and pink. According to Wikipedia, the color names for these different types of sounds are derived from a loose analogy between the spectrum of frequencies of sound wave present in the sound and the equivalent spectrum of light wave frequencies. That is, if the sound wave pattern of “blue noise” were translated into light waves, the resulting light would be blue, and so on.

The rest of this article (with a lot of technical explanations) can be found on this Wikipedia page.

The commonly accepted colors are white, pink, blue, brown, purple and grey. Sometimes the names differ, and some wants to add other colors to the list as well.

So you’ve got your microphone hooked up to your computer, it receives sound and you have found the record button. However, when you try to record your voice it just doesn’t sound good. What’s the problem? Today I’m going to discuss some general techniques for recording through a microphone. I’ll follow up this post at a later point with a post on how to process the recording.
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The Equalizer – or EQ for short – is basically a device that let’s you “sculpt” the sound by raising or lowering the volume at a specific frequency as opposed to lowering or raising the volume of the entire spectrum like a regular volume control does. When talking about EQs this is generally referred to as “boosting” or “cutting”. The number of “bands” decides on how many places the EQ can boost or cut. The width of the spectrum that the bands will affect is set with the “Q value”. There are a myriad of different EQs available that functions in different ways.

The compressor is a device that basically compresses the sound , that is, reducing the dynamics. By doing so it is possible to better “glue” the sounds together and in the end also raise the volume.

Each compressor functions differently, but common controls are threshold which decides at what levels the compressor shall start working, ratio which decides how much compression will be applied, attack and release which are timing parameters for setting how fast the compressor will work, and finally gain (or makeup gain) which helps in setting the level of the compressed signal.

Following last days post on cleaning up your recordings I’ll give you a list of a couple of helpful plug-ins and applications that are specialized on this task. Most of these are rather expensive, but they can prove to be worth the price.
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Here’s a few USB powered microphones and kits made for podcasting or the like. When USB microphones first came into this world they got a bad rep among professionals. Since then it seems like things have change, at least a bit. I have no idea about how good these particular microphones are though, so you’ll have to try them for yourself.
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