How to use Audacity to Record & Edit Audio | Beginners Tutorial (2024) - Part 1

How to use Audacity to Record & Edit Audio - Beginners Tutorial (2024). In this step-by-step tutorial, you will learn how to record and edit audio using Audacity. Audacity is free, open-source, and works across platforms, including Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Audacity 3.4.2 has been used, the latest version at the time of making this beginner-level tutorial. The concepts used in this video are also applicable to version 3.5.1

[jasonstarr]

Doing my first ACX for Amazon - my own book - and this has been very helpful. As funds allow, I'll likely take the full $200 course since I expect to be using Audacity a lot! Thanks, new sub. Very helpful.

8:45 Recording Level
14:30 Basic Editing and Navigation
22:27 Better Sound
~30:00 Macros and effects in general
37:00 Noise Reduction

[Essenceof.]

Thank you so much. Your tutorial has made my life so much easier. I am looking to buy your course when I am ready to create an audiobook - which is one of my goals.

I am recording my podcast and would love to share my first episode with you. Would that be okay with you?

You have been of tremendous help. Thank you once again.

[KenWarrick]

Hi, I use MP3 files (Backtracks) for my Solo Act. Is there a way I can get them "Reasonably" balanced for playpack so I'm not riding the volume fader all the time?

[davefothergill]

Why does the audio track stop scrolling across the screen while playing back? What setting is needed to get the audio track to advance while playing? (not sure I explained that correctly)

[SmoothBassVO]

Is there an easier way to get to the "Get Noise Profile" function than going through the menu tree and clicking the button? Like a shortcut?

[janbarry]

Where do I get the 11 macros for $19 please ?

[mrvoiceofyuvan]

Witch is the best condenser mic in budget

[dxmx]

Ive been using audacity for many years & like it. But now the last few versions I get a quick static at around 1:30 in & it comes back every few minutes at the same time. The static is on a word & lasts maybe 1/4 of a second. I upped buffer to 550 from 100 & it still makes the static. Its not my mic or cables or any plugins. Its something in audacity. Anyone have this & fix for it? Im gonna have to find another software to record in if I cant fix this. I want to keep using it but I cant have a static sound constantly every few minutes. The 1st one always starts at 1:30 . Anyone have any idea?

[Dreamcatcher-]

As I was listening this became too fast for a beginner, well for me anyway, especially 3/4 in to the video. 🙃

[EduardQualls]

Is it ironic to use a flat, bland, metronome-timed AI-generated narrator-voice for a video about an audio recorder?

[allenbauman]

Is it me or does this sound like an AI clone voice?