Getting Started
Exercise One:
To conduct this exercise you must download and install audacity.
[video 1]
Next, you are going to do a quick recording. Choose the text you want to recite and do the following.
[video 2]
Troubleshooting help: If, when setting up Audacity, you have plugged in a mic that does not appear, restart the application. Mics that are plugged in after the app is launched won’t show in the dropdown menu.
Watch about setting levels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Liqm7AO9HgM
Read more about mono and stereo.
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tracks_menu_add_new.html
Note exporting
In addition to saving files as an Audacity project, you can also export them in a variety of different formats, such as MP3s and WAV, which can be used on multiple platforms. You will learn how to export in exercise four.
For now, put your recording aside. We’ll get back to that later. Let’s think more about sound...