I'm going to make a gentle suggestion, and I mean it respectfully, but everyone in this sub is going to downvote me into oblivion for saying it. Deep breath: if you upgrade to a more mature DAW, your life will be easier. Audacity has some limitations that slow your workflow down. Two huge examples (unless something has changed) You cannot make edits while the audio is playing Audacity doesn't allow for real-time plugin processing I can edit a 60-min podcast, at 1x playback, in about 70-minutes in Presonus Studio One (that's just the DAW I use, it's not especially speedier than Pro Tools or Logic Pro or whatever, it's just the right fit for me). That same 60-min podcast, at 1x playback, in Audacity, would probably take me 2-3 hours. I've been editing podcasts since 2010, and I'm fluent in 5 DAWs + Audacity. In order to edit as fast in Audacity as I edit in Studio One, I need to play the audio back at 2x to make up for problem #1. To some extent, everyone can get fast with Audacity, as they get familiar with it and as they learn the shortcuts necessary to navigate it better, but problems 1 & 2, no matter how good you get at Audacity, are sticking points for productivity. Stopping playback to make an edit extends your overall time-in-daw. Not being able to hear the effect of a plugin over more than the 5-second sample, means you're eq-ing (or whatever) an entire piece of audio based on a 5-second sample. If you want to go faster, and if you're going to commit to learning, my suggestion is to do so with an actual DAW - which Audacity is not. EDIT: PS, if you want to see what I do to my audio, look for the FX Chain post I made earlier today (or maybe last night, I can't remember). Answer from Deleted User on reddit.com