<p>I used an editor to get rid of static noise in my recording; is this okay with Duke? I know they said no edited recordings allowed but I’m assuming that just applies to actually splicing parts of pieces together. I could send the unedited but there’s a decent amount of static as my recording equipment isn’t <em>that</em> good.</p>
<p>Idk man, they say UNEDITED for a reason: part of that is so there will be no cheating, but part of that is so recording quality won’t be a deciding factor. There are people who can mix and equalize to make stuff sound 10x better, but they don’t want that, they don’t want any editing at all. I personally didn’t edit anything at all because if it is bad quality, they can’t use that against you because it’s all about SKILL, not recording quality, but if they can tell you’ve edited it, you could be screwed.
Do what you feel is right, but remember the risk you run by editing it.</p>
<p>Hmmm I think I’ll just submit both and add a note that one is edited to remove noise, and if they don’t like it the unedited is right after. How do they tell if it’s edited anyway…</p>
<p>Well most editing things aren’t perfect, and if you don’t have good recording equipment, chances are your stuff will sound as if it has had noise removal applied instead of just a recording without static. But your idea seems like it would work so go ahead with that.</p>