This post covers recording in Audacity and a little bit of editing voice as well.

Recording with a Microphone

Most laptops have microphones built in. If your computer doesn’t have a microphone, try Recording and Editing Audio with a phone and then transfer the sound into Audacity

A NOTE on Recording with a Microphone. When recording using a microphone, record some silence at the beginning. Audacity has a feature that can analyze the room noise and then remove it from your recording. It needs some empty time when nobody is talking to do this.

Also make sure the person is close to the mic (but not touching it). Remember that the further away they are, the quieter their sound is and the lower quality the recording is.

Audacity Official Instructions

You can go through their instructions in the support: Recording your voice with a microphone | Audacity Support (audacityteam.org)

 Video Instructions

We are going to go over this YouTube video in class. It shows how to record and edit and save the .aup3 file.

view on YouTube

This video covers the basics of :

• Setting up Audacity
• Checking that the microphone is working
• Recording settings
• Recording
• Editing the recorded audio so it sounds better including removing room noise.

We will walk through the video in class so that you can get help with it. We will also be able to get more insight into some of the audio terms and concepts we started in class previously.