Audacity Tutorial Part 2: I can’t hear myself!
In this Audacity Tutorial, I show you how to change your preferences and why some things are more important than others. If you are having problems registering your voice recording or hearing the recording back, this video should offer some solutions. You will also see how to record and zoom in on sections of your recording.
As always, you follow along in real time as I re-discover Audacity so apologies for any dithering 
Today, I was being trained to gather and present travel news for a variety of radio stations around the UK. For the pre-recorded segments they use Audacity. The guy training me said “Do you know how to use Audacity?” Made me laugh!
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Oct 2nd, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Great job Lisa!
I am at a total loss when it comes to things like this. I would guess it’s because I never think I have much to say (well, of much importance). I do think my day is coming!
Having someone walk through how to set up and use tools like this makes me feel allot better than if I just jumped in and tried them on my own.
Thanks for taking the time to help us all out!
As for your ‘ugly mug’, I always think you look so cute and happy!
Have a super day,
Sheryl
You rock!
Oct 2nd, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Thanks for putting together such a great tutorial on Audacity. One other important thing to check for low volume is the microphone boost on your sound card settings. It’s not actually an Audacity setting at all. This page linked below shows where that sneaky check box is hidden on Windows XP, and I suspect that there are similar settings in Windows Vista.
http://agnradmin.umd.edu/iet/IETServices/Centra%20Webconferencing/Admin%20Page1.cfm
Of course, you can always Google “microphone boost.”
Oct 2nd, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Thanks Sheryl, I think you’re my greatest fan!
Absolutely, Doug, and that link shows it really simply so I will add that to the next tutorial post since it explains it better than I can. Thank you.
Oct 2nd, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Love the tutorials! Definitely will go on the blog for visitors from Women’s Work (http://wwork.com). I’ve been using Audacity for awhile now and would love to hear from you what filter to use to make a professionally sounding podcast. What I usually do is Reduce Noise, Normalize and Compress. Also, I’ll use the Remove Clicks filter. And for those p’s and s’s that get through I do a Hard Limiter. It is a lot of trial and error though…Would love to hear what you recommend.
Oct 6th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
This is great Lisa – I only recently bought my first MP3 and mastered downloading onto an it so this nicely builds onto that techie thing (?) think I’m just allergic to the word ‘techie’ and it sets me in a spin.
Am mastering it nicely and thanks for your series … can’t wait for the next installment … tad ahh!!!
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