Audacity Tour Guide - quick tour of selected features of Audacity

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Audacity tutorial series for complete beginners. You'll be an Audacity audio editing expert by the end of this video playlist.

Audacity supports all major audio formats, allowing you to convert WAV to MP3, FLAC, Ogg and much more. ... Elevate your productions with a vast selection of third-party plugins, including VST3, Nyquist and more. ... Visualize frequencies in Audacity's Spectogram view or use scientific Vamp analyzers to make discoveries.

June 16, 2025 - In Audacity, set your preferences as shown: ... Confirm connection. Check to make sure your outputs and inputs are properly routed by first selecting Start Monitoring from the popup menu below the input meters (by the microphone icon), then playing your instrument. The LR input meters should respond. If the meters are hitting 0dB, use the Input Volume Slider to lower the input level so that the meters only approach 0 during the loudest sections.

1 Menu Bar 2 Transport Toolbar 3 Tools Toolbar 4 Edit Toolbar 5 Audio Setup Toolbar 6 Sharing & Effects Toolbar

Recording Meter Toolbar: Click Start Monitoring before recording, watch the bars and if they start to turn red, you’re audio is too loud and at risk for clipping (the same is true for the Playback Meter Toolbar to the right of it). Audacity, like most other audio (and video) editing platforms, is organized around “tracks,” which represent layers of sound.

In this guide, you'll learn how to record, edit, and export your podcast episodes using Audacity - free software available for both Mac and Windows.

To help you through the basics of recording and editing audio in Audacity, the library has created a tutorial. Use the tutorial to help you walk through the step-by-step process.

September 11, 2025 - It is advisable to use a sample rate of 44100 Hz for most standard audio projects, as it provides a good balance between audio quality and file size. Anything lower than this is just poor quality and any higher requires Pro Audio Setup. Audacity allows you to zoom in and out to view and edit your audio more accurately.

January 6, 2022 - Learn how to use Audacity in this tutorial with classes and step-by-step instructions for beginners.

Select “OK” to apply the effect. ... Use the Selector tool to select a segment of noise that you wish to remove from the track.

Welcome to the "Getting Started" quick help guide for Audacity.

Simply drag and drop the audio file in to the Audacity window. Or…. ... Select Import Audio ... in the Project menu. NOTE: Version 1.2.6 CAN NOT import WMA (Windows Media Audio) files. If you have a · WMA file, you can download and use the free Jodix WMA to MP3 converter to convert

Locate Audacity and open it by double-clicking on the icon. When Audacity opens, it automatically creates a new project. Go ahead and click on File and then Save as… to save your project now, just in case your computer crashes.

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