Please make sure you back up your work as you edit. And let me give you some ideas on some simple ways to name multiple versions of your work to make it easy to go back to a previous edit. Here are a couple of examples:
This is a simple numbering system:
myrecording_001.wav
myrecording_002.wav
myrecording_003.wav
myrecording_004.wav
myrecording_005.wav
or
The same system with annotations:
This is a simple numbering system
myrecording_001_(source_file).wav
myrecording_002.wav
myrecording_003_(normalized).wav
myrecording_004_(auphonic).wav
myrecording_005(added_music).wav
Another way using timestamps of the date I'm editing plus where I've reached in the timeline in hours_minutes:
myrecording_20210318_00_10.wav
myrecording_20210318_00_25.wav
myrecording_20210318_00_50.wav
myrecording_20210319_01_10.wav
myrecording_20210319_01_30.wav
PRODUCTION NOTES
Recording location: Sitting on my bed
Microphone: I used a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 phone (no windcover) handheld into the phone mic
Headphones: None
Recording app: Auphonic Edit for Android.
Recording format: WAV
Sample rate: 48000Hz
Editing app: Adobe Audition
Sound Treatment: Auphonic.com
Auphonic.com settings [to output as a 16bit mono WAV file]: Adaptive Leveler (on), Loudness Normalization (Loudness Target -19 LUFS ), Filtering (on), Noise and Hum Reduction (Reduction Amount: Auto)
I uploaded the resulting WAV file to Anchor.fm to host the file and added the music from their free music stock.
Anchor automatically converts the WAV file into a 128kbps .m4a file
