Before you can edit audio files you will have to either record something or import files. For more on recording view the Recording in Audacity post. The guides below cover importing.

How to Edit Audio Guide

 Editing audio | Audacity Support (audacityteam.org)

• What is covered in the guide:
  • Import
  • Removing parts of a sound
  • Moving sections around
  • Splitting a Clip
  • Resizing and Trimming clips
  • Applying Effects

Noise Reduction and Removal

Noise reduction & removal | Audacity Support (audacityteam.org)

This is important especially for recorded audio as it will often have unwanted background noise (like fans, or air conditioners etc). Note, this will not remove things like people talking or music in the background.

Changing Pitch and Tempo

Pitch controls how high or low your sound is. You can use it to make voices sound different or many other effects. Tempo speeds up or slows down your audio. These two can be changed independently of each other.

Changing Pitch

Audacity Manual: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/change_pitch.html

Changing Tempo

Audacity Manual: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/change_tempo.html

Realtime Effects

Using master effects & realtime effects | Audacity Support (audacityteam.org)

These are great because they are non-desctructive which means you can turn them on and off.

Tutorial on Editing

This is a PDF file tutorial that covers most of what we will need in this class. it is from a couple of versions ago so not all of the buttons and interface items are in the same place, but the concepts remain.

• Using Audacity to create a multi-track project tutorial