awesome! been using adobe forever and never knew about “generate tones”, so there you are. Go figure. What I have done is create a “watermark track” of beeps and blips and have been going to multi-track format ro mix the two (after saving the clean file, of course). This is easier. thanks, Mike !!!!
Randye
Jan Ochs
January 11 at 10:59 am
Nice piece, but you don’t tell anyone how to get the watermarks out.
For auditions I will change a word or leave something off – rather then use tones. For actual work with a new client, I stopped using tones and usually send a low quality recording if I am concerned about not getting paid – but will consider watermarking with tones again. Thanks for the reminder.
However! Instead of “inserting” the tone – which basically opens up the recording and adds the tone – wouldn’t you want to highlight and “select” a very short segment and “replace” it with the tone? (Kind of like what Randye was doing in the multi-track mix.)
In theory if you add it, it could be edited out – since it is not actually covering anything up. In reality, they probably don’t have the software and editing skills to do it, but, it is possible.
Great stuff as always!!! Thanks!
Thanks Mike & Terry – Very helpful as always!
Thanks for the tip gang!
Very helpful!
Regards,
Bryan
Great information you put out Terry. Wondered how water making was done with recordings.
awesome! been using adobe forever and never knew about “generate tones”, so there you are. Go figure. What I have done is create a “watermark track” of beeps and blips and have been going to multi-track format ro mix the two (after saving the clean file, of course). This is easier. thanks, Mike !!!!
Randye
Nice piece, but you don’t tell anyone how to get the watermarks out.
Good point, Jan but we will be providing that information in another video coming soon. Stay tuned and thanks for the comment. :-)
@Jan:
If you watch closely in the video, Mike saves the original file without the watermarks, then makes a new copy with the watermarks.
This can also be done using Audacity, which is a free program available by download.
Good points and excellent way to protect your work.
good information . i look forward to learning more
great info cant wait to learn more
Hi Mike,
For auditions I will change a word or leave something off – rather then use tones. For actual work with a new client, I stopped using tones and usually send a low quality recording if I am concerned about not getting paid – but will consider watermarking with tones again. Thanks for the reminder.
However! Instead of “inserting” the tone – which basically opens up the recording and adds the tone – wouldn’t you want to highlight and “select” a very short segment and “replace” it with the tone? (Kind of like what Randye was doing in the multi-track mix.)
In theory if you add it, it could be edited out – since it is not actually covering anything up. In reality, they probably don’t have the software and editing skills to do it, but, it is possible.