Audacity Tutorial Part 3: A Little Bit of Editing
In this Audacity Tutorial video, I show you some basic editing such as how to: cut unwanted audio out of your recording; silence a section of audio; undo your mistakes; and move a section of audio from one place to another.
Thanks to Doug for pointing out another reason you might be having problems recording your voice. It may have nothing to do with your Audacity preferences, and be related to your computer’s audio properties. For more information on how to change your settings, this AGNR page has a good description.
I’ll be getting more advanced with editing and mixing in the next videos, so if you have a particular problem and wonder how it can be achieved in Audacity, please post your questions below in the comments section.
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Oct 7th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Many thanks again for another grand installment … Its great to learn it this way … (my favourite format to be sure). Think it used to be called Learning at Nelly’s Knee or was it Elbow – or some such thing? It basically means learning by observing … That might just be me thats ancient enough to have heard such a reference …
Now I’ve a question pls Lisa … Got everything sorted with sound on Audacity matching settings on PC … great … did a couple of tests runs – everything hunky dory … recorded an 18-min long piece and saved as MP3 … went into iTunes and burned it onto a CD (want to give it to someone) and could hardly hear a sound … my regular CD player didn’t have any sound. It was only by playing it thru Windows Media Player that could hear it faintly … any suggestions … ?
May 13th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Lisa;I am having fits tyring to get our preachers sermons posted on our website. Your tutorials are very good but don’t particularly address this. We have just started recording them on CD and I have downloaded audacity. But I can’t join the two. I want to put them on the website in MP3. HOw do I do it?
Doug
Jun 10th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Jane, the only suggestion I can think of is that, as long as the sound is good in Audacity (and the wav files look like mine – not flat, which will mean low volume) then you might want to try writing to CD a different way i.e. a different cd writer.
Doug, if they are recorded in CD then you should be able to put them in your CDRom drive and rip the audio from the CD in mp3 format using a program like Windows Media Player. Then, if they need editing, open Audacity and open that file.
Lisa
May 16th, 2010 at 12:20 am
Hi Lisa, I am new to Audacity and found your blogg which is great. When I play a song is it possible to add some kind of marker or markers while its playing so I can find where I want to come back to edit after its finished playing.