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🔊 How to use Audacity to Record & Edit Audio | Beginners Tutorial
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In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to record and edit audio using Audacity. Audacity is free and open source and works across platforms, including Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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00:00 Introduction
00:51 Download Audacity
01:21 Main interface
01:51 Project rate / Sample rate
03:34 MME, Windows DirectSound & WASAPI audio drivers
04:12 Set microphone & playback device
05:20 Set & monitor recording levels
08:42 Record audio
10:59 Playback & selection tools
14:52 Zoom tool
16:43 Import audio
17:31 Save project
18:48 Adjust gain
19:58 Mute & solo tracks
20:41 Delete audio segments
22:34 Envelope tool
24:06 Amplify effect
25:37 Time shift tool
26:59 Insert silence
27:45 Split clips
28:12 Copy, paste & cut
29:08 Auto duck effect
31:41 Fade effect
32:33 Remove background noise
34:00 Compressor
35:36 Preview finished commercial
36:09 Distribute audio as wav, mp3 or other types
37:47 Wrap up
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The chapter covers a wide range of audio playback and editing tools such as adjusting volume, visualizing waveforms, playing, pausing, looping, selecting, zooming in and out, and navigating through the recording.', 'Visualizing waveforms helps in understanding speech patterns and loudness variations. The speaker explains how visualizing waveforms helps in understanding speech patterns, loudness variations, and matching speech to waveforms.', 'Playback options include playing, pausing, and looping using keyboard shortcuts and mouse clicks. The chapter explains playback options such as playing, pausing, and looping using keyboard shortcuts, mouse clicks, and setting play head positions.', 'Selecting and playing a specific portion of the audio is demonstrated. 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'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 2057.157, 'text': "Well, when we look at my waveform down here, you'll notice that some sections are a little bit louder where I emphasize a word,", 'start': 2050.172, 'duration': 6.985}, {'end': 2059.518, 'text': 'and other sections are a little bit quieter.', 'start': 2057.157, 'duration': 2.361}, {'end': 2061.699, 'text': "So there's a large dynamic range.", 'start': 2059.618, 'duration': 2.081}, {'end': 2065.502, 'text': "And as I'm speaking, some of the quieter parts might get lost.", 'start': 2062.239, 'duration': 3.263}, {'end': 2072.226, 'text': "So, for example, let's say maybe you're whispering or maybe you yell, you might not be able to hear all of those parts equally.", 'start': 2065.962, 'duration': 6.264}, {'end': 2074.027, 'text': 'So I want to even these out.', 'start': 2072.687, 'duration': 1.34}, {'end': 2077.429, 'text': "So I'm going to go right up to the effect menu and I'll select the compressor.", 'start': 2074.068, 'duration': 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'content': [{'end': 2286.107, 'text': 'Also, if you want to see me cover any other topics in the future, make sure to leave a note down below.', 'start': 2280.782, 'duration': 5.325}, {'end': 2289.03, 'text': "Alright, well that's all I had for you today.", 'start': 2286.127, 'duration': 2.903}], 'summary': 'Viewers can suggest future topics for coverage.', 'duration': 8.248, 'max_score': 2280.782, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yzJ2VyYkmaA/pics/yzJ2VyYkmaA2280782.jpg'}], 'start': 1852.848, 'title': 'Automatic volume adjustment feature and editing audio with audacity', 'summary': 'Demonstrates automatic volume adjustment feature for seamless transition and better audibility, and highlights audio editing in audacity including removing background noise, applying fade effects, and using a compressor to adjust audio levels, with final export in wav format.', 'chapters': [{'end': 1901.288, 'start': 1852.848, 'title': 'Automatic volume adjustment 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with audacity', 'summary': 'Highlights how to edit audio in audacity by removing background noise, applying fade effects, and using a compressor to adjust audio levels, as well as exporting the final audio file as a wav format.', 'duration': 391.225, 'highlights': ['The chapter covers how to export the final audio file as a WAV format, allowing for higher quality but larger file size. The speaker demonstrates the process of exporting the audio file as a WAV format, highlighting the trade-off between quality and file size.', 'The speaker showcases the use of a compressor to adjust the audio levels and even out the dynamic range, ensuring all parts are audible. The demonstration of using a compressor to even out the audio levels and address the dynamic range issues, ensuring all parts of the audio are audible.', 'The chapter explains the process of removing background noise using the noise reduction tool in Audacity. The explanation of the process of removing background noise using the noise reduction tool in Audacity, emphasizing the importance of recording room noise for reference.']}], 'duration': 439.665, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yzJ2VyYkmaA/pics/yzJ2VyYkmaA1852848.jpg', 'highlights': ['The automatic volume adjustment feature ensures a seamless transition and better audibility for the speaker.', 'The feature enhances the listening experience by creating a more dynamic audio experience.', 'The demonstration showcases the use of the automatic volume adjustment feature with all the defaults, providing an easy and user-friendly experience for the audience.', 'The chapter covers how to export the final audio file as a WAV format, highlighting the trade-off between quality and file size.', 'The speaker showcases the use of a compressor to adjust the audio levels and even out the dynamic range, ensuring all parts are audible.', 'The chapter explains the process of removing background noise using the noise reduction tool in Audacity, emphasizing the importance of recording room noise for reference.']}], 'highlights': ['The demonstration includes creating a radio commercial for the Kevin Cookie Company, providing a practical example for viewers to follow along and understand how to use Audacity for audio editing and recording.', 'The goal of the video is to equip viewers with comprehensive knowledge of how to record and edit using Audacity, aiming to provide a clear learning outcome for the audience.', 'The higher the sample rate, the more accurate the sound representation, with typical music CD quality being 44,100, and recommendable sample rates ranging from 44,100 to 96,000.', 'Importance of setting appropriate levels to avoid clipping, demonstrating how turning the microphone levels too high results in clipping, which degrades the quality of the recording.', 'The chapter emphasizes the importance of taking a sample recording before a longer session to ensure the setup is correct, emphasizing the importance of not immediately speaking after clicking the record button and waiting to start speaking to allow for room noise buffer.', 'The chapter covers importing audio, saving projects, and exporting files in Audacity.', 'The chapter demonstrates various audio playback and editing tools.', 'Visualizing waveforms helps in understanding speech patterns and loudness variations.', 'The speaker uses playbacks to locate the specific section in the audio recording that needs to be deleted, demonstrating a practical approach to editing.', 'Visual waveforms are utilized to identify silent sections, allowing for precise editing by recognizing flat waveforms indicating no speech.', 'The chapter explains how to delete a portion of audio using the selection tool or the delete key, demonstrating the process of removing unwanted sections from the audio track.', 'It demonstrates the use of the envelope tool to adjust the volume levels of the audio track, including adding and adjusting control points to modify the volume levels at specific points in the track.', 'The chapter explains how to use the amplify effect to match the volume levels of different audio clips, including determining the appropriate amplification level based on the reference audio.', 'It details the process of creating silence in the audio track by generating a specified duration of silence or by splitting the audio track and using the time shift tool to position the clips, demonstrating different methods to introduce gaps in the audio track.', 'The chapter explains how to incorporate sound effects into the audio track using the copy and paste commands, including duplicating a specific sound segment to create a desired effect in the commercial.', 'The automatic volume adjustment feature ensures a seamless transition and better audibility for the speaker.', 'The feature enhances the listening experience by creating a more dynamic audio experience.', 'The demonstration showcases the use of the automatic volume adjustment feature with all the defaults, providing an easy and user-friendly experience for the audience.', 'The chapter covers how to export the final audio file as a WAV format, highlighting the trade-off between quality and file size.', 'The speaker showcases the use of a compressor to adjust the audio levels and even out the dynamic range, ensuring all parts are audible.', 'The chapter explains the process of removing background noise using the noise reduction tool in Audacity, emphasizing the importance of recording room noise for reference.']}