The next step is to apply audio effects to this data, but selecting which bit is quite important. Click import and you should have the raw data represented as an audio file, not one that you’ll enjoy listening to, but a usable one non the less.
Selecting what I have from the drop down menus should provide suitable settings, although it shouldn’t matter what you select, as long as you remember it for when you export the file once you’re done. Opening up Audacity and selecting the “Import, RAW Data…” options from the File menu gives you the following screen. In this post I’ll be focusing on pictures and videos, namely how the effect is achieved and what can be created with this technique.įor this instance I will use this tasteful selfie I took whilst mountain biking specifically for this purpose.Īudacity is a widely used DAW (digital audio workstation) that is free to download and makes it easy to import any kind of media file, be it audio or not. Datamoshing, also known as glitching or databending, is a type audiovisual effect that relies on “broken” or augmented files of originally clean media.
