Not coming from a studio or music background, terms such as compression, normalization, high pass, and low pass were all gibberish to me.īut once I gained a basic understanding of some of these terms, everything else started becoming rather natural.
To be honest, what I had to learn wasn’t the Audacity UI, but audio terminology. In saying that though, it’s not that much of a learning curve. Honestly, given I’ve been in open-source for so long, I should hold my head in shame for not using it sooner.īut hey, using it was a bit of a learning curve. I’ll be honest, at first I was a bit dubious about using it, thinking it wouldn’t give me the kind of sound I wanted, instead preferring stick to the “ safe” route of using GarageBand.īut after some experimentation, I’ve found that Audacity’s clearly the better choice. It can remove annoying background sounds with its noise gate functionality.It can apply numerous effects, including: Normalization, Equalization, Fade In, Fade Out, Silence, & Truncation.It can cut, copy, splice, or mix sounds together.It can edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3, or Ogg Vorbis sound files.It has a very healthy range of features but here’s a short list: If this is your first time hearing about it, Audacity is an open source (and free) application for recording and editing audio. So in my never ending search for that perfect sound, I’ve come across a reliable process which works for me.īest of all, it’s using Audacity, which is my all-time - favourite - audio editor.
I’m not saying I want to sound like I have access to a professional recording studio.Īs it’s nice to still have a slightly more relaxed sound. So it’s important to me that I sound professional, and not like I’m all alone in a room. I do an increasing amount of audio work whether that’s for my Free the Geek podcast, technical training videos, or longer courses. Whether you’re creating a podcast or a screencast, how do you make your voice sound as professional as possible - without an expensive recording studio? Today I’ll show you how to do it using the free, open-source tool Audacity.
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