Audacity

 

A. Downloading and Installing Audacity

Downloading from the Audacity site

Finding and downloading the LAME mp3 encoder

B. Setting Up Audacity and Its Features

Understanding the Audacity window

Becoming familiar with the Audacity Toolbar buttons

Understanding the rules of Audacity

Customizing the preferences

Setting up your project for stereo vs. mono recording

Setting up a new project

Using keyboard shortcuts and creating your own

C. Recording with Audacity

Setting up Audacity to record directly from your computer

Using Audacity to record from a microphone

Tweaking your settings for the best possible recording

D. Basic Editing with Audacity

Importing and playing audio files

Creating and saving an audio project

Naming your tracks within an audio project

Making a selection with the Selection tool

Making different types of selections

Trimming and cleaning up audio files

Cutting, copying and pasting selections

Adding silence to an audio project

Duplicating selections in a project

Splitting selections in a project

E. Audacity's Editing Tools

Using the Time Shift tool to move pieces of a track

Using the Trim Outside Selection and Silence Selection buttons

Creating a Quick Mix and exporting as wav

Using the Draw tool

Using the Envelope tool

Using the various Zoom tools

Viewing your edit history

Panning a stereo track

F. Tips and Tricks for Better Audio Editing

Creating your own harmonies

Adding a voiceover to background music

Creating a multi track recording

Aligning tracks in your project

Moving tracks in the timeline

Using the Multi Tool mode

Adding label tracks

G. Using Effects

Amplifying and normalizing audio tracks

Creating echo

Using the noise removal effect

Using the reverse and repeat effects

Using the fade in and fade out effects

Adding bass boost

Changing pitch and speed

Using the wahwah effect

H. Exporting Audio Files

Setting up LAME to convert wav files to mp3

Exporting a selection

Exporting mp3 and Ogg files

Exporting multiple tracks

Labeling your mp3 files with ID3 tags