Louder Hinge Sounds on Audacity

A lot of people been complaining about their hinge sounds being too low. The reason why my hinge sounds are loud is because I use a limiter to make them as loud as possible. I didn't include how to do this in my hinge sound tutorial because it is not necessary to do this for hinge sounds to work and this procedure is for more advanced users. Hard limiting and amplifying can cause clipping and possibly permanent damage to your Sidekick's speakers if not done correctly. In this video I will show you how to maximize the loudness of your hinge sounds on Audacity while preventing clipping. If you're unsure about your understanding of this video, I suggest you ask questions before you start testing loud sounds on your phone.

**This Video Does Not Explains How To Make Hinge Sounds**
Click Here for The Hinge Sounds Tutorial for Audacity
Click Here for The Hinge Sounds Tutorial for Adobe Audition.

Sk Hinge Sounds On Audacity

I already made a video on "How To Make Hinge Sounds" with Adobe Audition, but since Audacity is Free, I decided to remake the video on Audacity. The process is basically the same, the hinges can be in any audio format as long as they do not exceed 100 KB.

Download Audacity:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Audacity needs a plug-in to export MP3 files so you'll also need:

Lame MP3 Encoder

In this video I show you how to make hinge sounds from a sound file already on your computer. If you would like to make custom hinge sounds by recording them, watch my video on "How To Record What you Hear". Although that video is made with Adobe Audition, The process in Audacity is exactly the same, All you have to do is go to Edit... Preferences... and Under "Audio I/O", Select "Monitor Mixer" as your Recording Device, the rest is exactly the same, just play the sound and hit record on Audacity.

Remember once you have your hinge sounds done to make sure they do not exceed 100 KB and to add the hinge sound string to your Theme.txt file. The strings should look like this:

sound system-hinge-open-sound FILENAME.mp3
sound system-hinge-close-sound FILENAME.mp3

How To Record What You Hear

I've already made a video on making hinge sounds with Adobe Audition but I know a lot of people are wondering where do I get good sounds from so I made this video. I get hinge sounds from anywhere on the web, basically any sound that I can hear coming out of my PC can be recorded and saved. I use a M-AUDIO Audiophile 2496 audio card for my recordings but the process is the same with any audio device. I am using Adobe Audition on this video but most recording programs are capable of recording what you hear if you select Monitor/Mixer as the input. You can use this process to capture sound from anywhere, If it plays on your computer, you can record it! This video only explains how to record the sounds you want, If you want to use the sounds you record as hinge sounds for your Sidekick, you need to watch my other video on "How To Make Hinge Sounds".

How To Make Hinge Sounds

This is a basic tutorial on how to make hinge sounds for Sidekicks with Adobe Audition, the process is the same in other programs, Audition is just my preferred application. Please notice it is very important that you verify that the final file size for your hinges is less than 100 KB, anything bigger than that will not work. In this video I used the MP3 format because MP3 compression allows you to make longer sounds with a smaller file size, and I find that the 56 kbps, 22050 Hz format sounds really good on the sidekick but the sidekick is NOT limited to MP3 and other popular audio formats will work as long as the file size is less than 100 KB.