How To Use Audacity

HOW TO USE
AUDACITY
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What is
Audacity?

It is a
software
used for
recording
and editing
sounds.

Would you
like to
know its
basics?

LET’S GET STARTED!

Pull up your
Google
Chrome
browser

A new tab will appear

Type Audacity here

Click Download

Click here if you are using
Windows

This tutorial is
using
Windows 8

Automatically, download
starts

Once completed,
click here

Click Open

Click on OK

Click on Next

Click on Next again

Click here

Wait to complete installing
the software

Click here

Finally, we have now the
software

Let’s check out how we can
use it

Let’s have this area first

For a closer look, here are
the buttons

Click this to
pause the track

Then click this to Play the
track

Or Stop it completely

If you want to go skip to
start, click this

Click this if you want to
skip to end

If you’re ready to record,
click this

Let’s have a little
experiment!

Things to check before
recording an audio

Set the slider about in the
middle
(Microphone)

Set the slider about in the
middle
(Playback)

During recording /
playback,
keep an eye here

Make sure your audio
recording doesn’t reach
here

You can select options here
based on your preference

MME is the default option,
but you can choose any

Choose which microphone
you will use

Choose how you would like
your audio sounds
recorded

Choose how you would like
to listen on the audio file

Adjust the speed of the
audio

This is useful if you are
listening for something
particular

Before recording, check
this portion as well

This should be 44100

If not, click on Edit

Click here

It should be set on 16 - bit

Click here

You’re
now
ready to
record

To start recording, click
here

Wait for 3 seconds and
speak

Here’s the recording will
look like

This is the waveform

It’s time to
clean up
the Audio
recording

These are the editing tools

These serves as the cursor

It’s commonly known as
Selection tool or Play head

Use the play head to
highlight the track

Or Use Ctrl + A for
keyboard shortcut

Let’s try it

Let’s highlight this area
using playhead

Click on Effect

Click here

You will routed here again

Now, let’s highlight the
whole track by using Ctrl +
A key

Click here

Click on Noise Reduction
again

By this time, Click ok

Let’s highlight it again

Click here to cut it

See the difference on the
opening section

Highlight the track again

Click on Effect

By this time, click on
Normalize

You can change this

Click on Preview to hear
the track

Click on Ok, if you’re
satisfied on what you hear

See what happened to
waveform

Next, we will adjust the
frequency of the audio

Keep the track highlighted

Click on Effect again

Let’s have Equalization

Click here

Choose on these
predefined curve

You can adjust
these sliders

Click on Preview

Click on Ok

Back to the interface

Take time to play around
with these effects

Let’s save the audio

Click on File

Click here

Choose where you want to
save it

Give a File Name

This is saved as WAV type

Click on Save

Click Ok

That’s all for today!

How To Use Audacity

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