Audacity Guide: Record & Edit Audio for Beginners 🎙️

A step-by-step guide for basic Audacity use to record your voice, master it and mix it with music. Audacity is free and open source and works on Windows, Mac and Linux.

- If you don't have admin rights, get Audacity like this: https://youtu.be/TvA0bsNjzIw
- Audacity Download: https://www.audacityteam.org

0:00 Introduction
0:28 Download Audacity
1:00 First Look
1:14 Set Sampling rate
1:50 MME, Windows DirectSound, WASAPI differences in Audio Hosts
2:38 Mono or Stereo, set & see recording levels
3:36 Record voice audio
3:53 Playback & fixing bad recording
4:33 Select, cut & paste tools/shortcuts
5:22 Trim & silence
5:34 Rearranging & restoring UI
5:58 "transport" tools
7:04 Fixing clipping audio
8:00 Deleting audio from a clip
8:23 Envelope tool
9:04 Import audio file
9:37 Track volume & length
10:19 Split & move audio clips
10:36 Save project
11:11 Speed up (change tempo)
12:14 Auto-quiet music 🚗🦆
13:50 Fade out
14:14 Noise removal/reduction
15:26 Make clip louder
16:06 Compressor & bugs
17:17 Preview finished ad
18:05 Export as WAV and MP3
19:01 Color themes
19:33 Keyboard Shortcut
20:34 Wrapping up