Audacity is
considered as a best replacement for a digital audio recorder plus editor. If
someone has a computer with microphone and sound, simply download the audacity
program and start using audacity for recording their voice. It also
provides the facility to edit the recorded voice. Background Music and effects
can be added easily. Interviews and talk shows can be edited to remove unwanted
background voices. Strongest feature of Audacity is the simplicity of using
audacity. It can perform all major functions regarding digital voice recording.
These main tasks performed by Audacity are:
1.
Recording
2.
Playback
3.
Editing
Buttons and menus are
very simple in Audacity that makes it very easy to use software. Many people
don't need to search about "how to use audacity" and they
start using it through its own help material.
10
Tips on Using Audacity:
1.
How To Use Audacity For Voice Recording
·
To start recording Open -> Record Button
·
To Stop Click on STOP
Your recording will
appear on the blank screen indicating a recorded track. It will also give
further information about your track like recording length and properties. Audacity
creates a wave form of your sound track clearly showing the time, amplification
and other details of sound track.
2.
How To Use Audacity For Play Back
You can play/pause/stop/forward/reverse
your track to listen your recording by clicking on traditional buttons. Play
back buttons are round shaped buttons to play, stop, pause etc.
3.
How To Name/Rename Your Track
Open the menu at left
side of recorded track, click on Name and then type a suitable name for the track.
4.
How to Delete a Track in Audacity
There is a (x) on the
extreme left corner of track. A track can be deleted by simply clicking on it.
5.
How To Use Editing Tools Of Audacity
Selection
Tool- selects the
required area that need editing. Select it, click and drag on area in wave
motion and that area will become shaded.
Remove/Reduce
Amplification-
Audacity shows loudly spoken words in big waves. You can reduce amplification
by selecting the big wave. Now open Effects and select amplify. You will see a
slider in opened box. Moving this slider to left will reduce the amplification
and moving right will increase amplification. Just select the required level.
Envelop
Tool- Button on right
side of selection tool is called envelop tool. It is used
·
to increase/ decrease volume at any place of
recording
·
For fading music in back ground
·
Editing sound recordings where two voices are there
specially if one sound is high and other is low
Zoom
Tool- zoom any areas of
sound track to easily select small or big parts.
Time-Shift
Tool- Its two way arrow
button, used to cut and paste or move an entire track.
Multi
Tool- star button is
multi tool of editing. It is like selecting all editing tools at once.
6.
How To Export Your Audio File
You can easily export
your file in wav format. Choose File -> Export as wav file -> Save. You
may have a pop up warning so you can ignore it.
7.
How To Use Audacity To Export Your Audio In MP3 Format
MP3 files are much
smaller than other audio file types. So it's easy to keep many MP3 in less disk
space. You just need to download a soft-ware named "LAME" to convert
your audio to MP3. You can open wav file in any media player like Windows Media
Player.
8.
How To Apply An Effect To All Tracks
If you want to apply
any specific effect and you want to apply it on all tracks then you can do it
easily in Audacity. How to use audacity to apply effects? Needs to
follow simple steps, Click anywhere on a wave form, press Ctrl + A keys on your
keyboard. It will select whole wave form. Now open the Effects menu and choose
your required effect from list.
9.
Adding More Audio In Your Previous Recording
Open saved audio and
click on the end point of wave form. Now start recording from that place.
10.
How To Make One Audio Track From Two Different Tracks
Using
Audacity can make things
simple. Although, it seems difficult to combine two sound tracks and make it as
one track. But it's not that difficult in Audacity. Audacity treats all sound
tracks as transparent items so you can add / remove/ move any part of audio
recording. If you want to join two sound tracks or if you forgot to click at
the end of previous recording while adding additional part and one portion of
sound is recorded as a different track then you can join both tracks easily. Open
both tracks that you want to join. Choose Time Shift tool and drag the second track
at the end point of first track like this
Helpful
videos For How To Use Audacity:
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Tips
On How To Use Audacity
- If you need an editing on your sound recording afterwards
better to speak softly rather than loudly. It is especially important if you
are recording instructional videos.
When using Audacity for recording, record few seconds of silence before hitting the STOP button when you want to end recording. It will help in editing afterwards. You can easily remove unwanted silence after you finish your editing.
- You can take different back ground music tracks and background sound for free by searching online. It takes a lot of time to create background sounds or music. So it can save a lot of time too if you take these supplies from internet.
- If you want to make music sound track and you don't have music instruments then you don't need to buy them. You can download any piano software to record instruments sounds in audacity.
- Help available in Audacity itself is very good guide for "how to use audacity". If you have little experience about recording and editing sound tracks then you may not feel any problem in following this help and using Audacity.
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