Learn Audacity

Learn Audacity

Welcome to Learn Audacity, an audio resource for podcasters and audiobook narrators who use Audacity as their audio editing software. I am a guest Audacity instructor at Harvard University online school. I also teach Audacity Step-By-Step: Beginner to Advanced and ACX Audiobook Production Using Audacity at AudacityBootcamp.com. From beginner to advanced, this channel is loaded with instructional videos on the many features of Audacity and how to employ them in your own podcasts and audiobook production. See my links in the channel header.

Audacity 3.2.3 Released

Audacity 3.2.3 Released

What is DC Offset?

What is DC Offset?

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  • @kreankorm
    @kreankormКүн бұрын

    You have just saved me hours of re-recording. Thank you, sir.

  • @JzR0911
    @JzR09115 күн бұрын

    why does my audacity dont have a limiter option

  • @NewEra-dk2zx
    @NewEra-dk2zx7 күн бұрын

    thank you soooo much

  • @ekon01cz
    @ekon01cz8 күн бұрын

    Grandpa on fire. Thanks for help man.

  • @ThaiNguyen-hd1hj
    @ThaiNguyen-hd1hj14 күн бұрын

    Thank you so much!

  • @dagmawilemenih
    @dagmawilemenih15 күн бұрын

    This is a really good video and helped me out a lot. Thanks my guy 💯

  • @raytry69
    @raytry6917 күн бұрын

    My first wish for Audacity: multithread.

  • @maureenlefay
    @maureenlefay22 күн бұрын

    Thank you! The noise floor issue about had me on the floor trying to fix it. This made it easy.

  • @StarrGaither
    @StarrGaither24 күн бұрын

    There was VERY helpful! Thank you!!

  • @NYUK-x-4
    @NYUK-x-427 күн бұрын

    Is there a way to record with an open track? When I try it just starts recording at the end of my open track

  • @jeffreysantner3717
    @jeffreysantner371727 күн бұрын

    'Audible' range.....

  • @jeffreysantner3717
    @jeffreysantner371727 күн бұрын

    You don't need to duplicate the track necessarily, I just 'save as' and if I screw it up, I just close and don't save any changes.

  • @bobbijones4377
    @bobbijones437728 күн бұрын

    Hi, I came across this video because I spent all day yesterday and half the night trying to fix the low noise floor on my recordings. Thank you for this solution. I'm going to try it now. Do you have any videos that address the opposite...too noisy?

  • @Bryanegreenlee
    @BryanegreenleeАй бұрын

    Great video! I’m a beginner using audacity. Does this affect the ACX process when you prepare it for upload? Thank you in advance.

  • @jorgesindonivielma994
    @jorgesindonivielma994Ай бұрын

    This guy is the number ONE. Thanks a lot buddy.

  • @VM-oi3dk
    @VM-oi3dkАй бұрын

    I just don’t use real time

  • @grzegorzbaanda1714
    @grzegorzbaanda1714Ай бұрын

    Straight to the point, very informative. Thank you!

  • @april_mmm
    @april_mmmАй бұрын

    How do you undo this? Hitting the same commands a second time does not in fact undo it.

  • @chandannarayan497
    @chandannarayan497Ай бұрын

    Great vid!

  • @peternapoliello2490
    @peternapoliello2490Ай бұрын

    No disrespect but there is no de clicker or de esser for Mac. You probably are running some bogus app and not a reliable plug in. The LOW PASS filter is the proper way to go. No offense but try to be more punctual for the viewers because this was complete misinformation and a waste of time.

  • @sarahjackson1730
    @sarahjackson1730Ай бұрын

    Thank you so much! You're the first person to explain this in a way that made sense, and now I am having SO MUCH less frustration in post-recording editing. I appreciate you immensely.

  • @lbbruins7958
    @lbbruins7958Ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @eyitayoayodeji3690
    @eyitayoayodeji3690Ай бұрын

    Nice video thumbs up

  • @zodiak5182
    @zodiak5182Ай бұрын

    6:43

  • @madhawadhamsika5421
    @madhawadhamsika5421Ай бұрын

    hi i need a help, i hav a audio that cannot find correct figures to noice cancellation. plz help me

  • @gnofriends5678
    @gnofriends5678Ай бұрын

    Great video! Thank you!

  • @makukoi219
    @makukoi219Ай бұрын

    thank you so much i seen more than video to understand High/Low pass filters basic understanding and you were the one who explained it clearly. This is the power of teachers!

  • @MargaretsMakeandBake
    @MargaretsMakeandBakeАй бұрын

    Great advice, thanks...

  • @ChoppedAndSkinned
    @ChoppedAndSkinnedАй бұрын

    How do i adjust levels of the dark blue rms without affecting the light blue area?

  • @ChubbyAmadeusFan
    @ChubbyAmadeusFanАй бұрын

    I watched your new video on RX10. Thanks so much for producing that. Much appreciated! 👍

  • @ChubbyAmadeusFan
    @ChubbyAmadeusFanАй бұрын

    Thanks so much for making this video! I was wondering about this compatibility issue because when I Google about RX 10 and Audacity being compatible, Audacity says no. Good to hear from you that you are able to use RX10.

  • @willdatsun
    @willdatsunАй бұрын

    thanks. when i chop the wave up the labels then end up in wrong place, is there a way to make the labels stay relevant to the sections of the wave?

  • @97warlock
    @97warlockАй бұрын

    if you have -19 Lufs for audio broadcast/speaking ............ what would be a good number to use for a full band with vocals?? My recordings are always weak & not loud enough even bouncing into the red on recording.

  • @dave.F0X
    @dave.F0XАй бұрын

    I found that Audacity doesn't support some VST plugins very well, so I switched back to Sound Forge or just my Cubase sample editor instead.

  • @VM-oi3dk
    @VM-oi3dkАй бұрын

    3.51 doesn’t work with Sonible’s pureEQ. It won’t let me press play while Pure EQ analyzes the audio to adjust the EQ as required.

  • @LagunadeMaya
    @LagunadeMayaАй бұрын

    Audacity does not support Waves plugins too 😢. Not sure what's the issue on it. They are all vst3 plugins should be working because of it's standar

  • @VM-oi3dk
    @VM-oi3dkАй бұрын

    I use Waves with Audacity all the time.

  • @iSpike
    @iSpike2 ай бұрын

    BRILLIANT!

  • @iSpike
    @iSpike2 ай бұрын

    Thank you good sir, I am a beginner and your latest subscriber. Looking forward to gaining better skills at using this Amazing AUDACITY 3.5 free software! Much appreciation Cheers from Western Australia

  • @mmmisterslsl
    @mmmisterslsl2 ай бұрын

    This is what I was asking since day 1 plugins were introduced. Thank you.

  • @galenarayven6720
    @galenarayven67202 ай бұрын

    You are a genius! Thank you so much, you saved my day and my audiobook project!

  • @NR-rv8rz
    @NR-rv8rz2 ай бұрын

    Been learning about fixing RMX, Peak & Noise floor issues for my audiobook from your channel. It's going well but I encountered a problem where the Peak is 1db and the RMS is way too loud at -10db. If I lower the RMS to within the -18 to -23 range, the peak become too low. Even if set the RMS to the loudest allowed for ACX which is -18, the peak becomes around -9db and fails. When I play it, it sounds fine but it won't pass. How do I lower the RMS without lowering the peak below the accepted threshold?

  • @TheDramaCoach
    @TheDramaCoach2 ай бұрын

    really useful, thanks for sharing

  • @AffinityInspiration
    @AffinityInspiration2 ай бұрын

    After a number of hours, lower one, the other one goes up. Lower it, the other one goes up. This is like herding cats...

  • @AffinityInspiration
    @AffinityInspiration2 ай бұрын

    Really useful, thank you. Do you know how difficult it is to track this stuff down? The Noise Floor is a real pain to lower. I'm trying both Dynamic Mic and Condenser mics. I'm on a M2 Mac Mini and I mostly use a condenser mic. It's pretty good quality - but perhaps not the best. So thank you for this great tutorial, I've learnt a LOT.

  • @HemantaKumarParhi
    @HemantaKumarParhi2 ай бұрын

    Good Morning Sir I have subscribed your channel. I am a Hawaiin guitar player. I am new to the use of Audacity. I record my guitar along with music track through Audacity, but I failed to derive desired sound of guitar like pro player . I also use Audio interface connecting it to my Amplifier. May be I am ignorant of proper use of Audacity to record and apply required effects for Electric Hawaiin guitar. Please post a video for electric guitar recording and proper use of effects there in. You may watch my videos in my channel in Audacity for your better understanding of my play.. Thanks and Regards Hemanta Kumar parhi My channel name GUITARIST HEMANTA

  • @NR-rv8rz
    @NR-rv8rz2 ай бұрын

    Massive help. Would be great if you could upload the room sound recording somewhere we could download it. I have a decent Audio Technica shotgun mic, sound booth equipment, SLobs and a GoXLR but my PC is near it all so not sure i'll be able to record quiet room noise.

  • @NR-rv8rz
    @NR-rv8rz2 ай бұрын

    I think this video just saved my life :) I received 55 narration file from a professional narrator for my children's book and also 55 files of a few seconds of music to put in front of each chapter from a composer. The music was over the Audible RMS limit and the narration was under. I learned how to alter the RMS but even when I set it to the lowest of -23, the peaks are often too high and the noise floor too low. I described it as a seven foot man trying to walk through a six foot doorway. I was worried the only way to fix it would be to go to every single peak in the six hours of audio and limit them. But using the peak limiter here seems like it will work. Just subbed to your channel. Do you have an 'Audacity for absolute beginners' video series? *EDIT: Just tested it on a 5 second music file. The initial ACX analysis is that the file is -0.09db peak so too high. The RMS level is -22.31 Pass Noise floor is -123.42 so too low. When I normalise the peak to -3 db it gets a pass but that also lowers the RMS down to 25.22 dB so that fails. The noise floor is now -120.34 db so still too low. How can I lower the peak without shunting the RMS low than the acceptable ACX range?

  • @mfarooqiqbal
    @mfarooqiqbal2 ай бұрын

    what if we do not have silent part in the track?

  • @joanagarcia3083
    @joanagarcia30832 ай бұрын

    Oh my goodness, I have been searching and searching for this fix. You have just made my year. Thank you.

  • @LawrenceCaldwellAuthor
    @LawrenceCaldwellAuthor2 ай бұрын

    Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've been having so much trouble with this, and now you've shown me how to fix it. Subbed.