How to edit A Audio Recording
How to Edit in Audacity
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hello I'm Ike from music radio creative
calm and in a few short minutes I'll
show you how to become an editing pro
inside audacity so here we are in the
free audio editor audacity and I've got
some audio here I recorded earlier play
you a little bit of how you can edit
audio alright so in this short video I
want to get you familiar with these six
icons up here towards the top left next
to the playback controls so you might
already be confident with playing back
recording doing all of that a little bit
of basic zooming and editing but what is
everything too so this one here is the
selection tool I can use it to select
some audio and as I've demonstrated in
previous videos I can hit delete and
delete audio if I want selection tool is
good for isolating certain parts of your
audio that you want to work on next to
that is the wonderful envelope tool when
I do that you'll notice that the layout
and the waveform somewhat changes this
means I can now change this around and
manipulate look at this I can make the
audio quieter by clicking and dragging
or I can make it louder
March March louder by doing that so say
I want to paint on a few envelope oints
maybe I want an envelope point I can
move this first envelope point and
envelope point is where you start
something and then the next one is where
you stop something so I might say at
this point I want to fade out so now I
place another envelope here this is my
end point and then I'm going to
literally you see what I'm doing I'm
fading out that audio there until oh
look at that it's it's all gone so let's
let's hear how that little fade Center
you just show you see and it fades me
out they're ordered into audacity to
show you gone completely undo it and
you'll hear that the audio is all back
to T to show you and it's a perfect way
of playing with the envelope tool to put
on the lens Lopes you can put them
wherever you want and start fading the
audio up and down as you wish now this
lovely draw tool is a very interesting
feature in audacity and I'm going to
show you how it works in just a moment
but in order to do that I'll need to use
this tool down here this is called the
zoom tool great for zooming in to audio
and then
clicking to zoom back out so that's how
you use that right click on your mouse
to zoom in left click no sorry the other
way round
left click the zoom in right click to
zoom out so I'm zooming in now now I'm
speaking here and as you can see if i
zoom right in eventually you should see
some little points appearing see those
little points appearing on the waveform
now with the draw tool I'm going to
suddenly drag one of those points up and
play you that back and let you hear how
that sounds so let's zoom all the way
back out again and then we'll get the
chance to listen and you'll notice that
little clip is there in the audio
sometimes when voices are speaking for
instance they tend to make little clicks
with their mouths and those clicks sound
like this this is a little bit of
dialogue this is a little bit did you
hear the little click there yeah it
wasn't too good at all so what I'm gonna
do now is I'm going to zoom in using my
zoom tool to get right in on that point
where the click is and if that was a
genuine click in the speech there what I
could do is I could use the draw tool to
simply drag this all the way back down
make it sound much more natural now
zooming out and if I play that all back
to you you should suddenly realize that
the click is eliminated and my speech
sounds totally natural so let's have a
listen now to this audio and see how it
sounds this is a little bit of dialogue
absolutely no problem there with the
recording so you can see how well that
draw tool works so so far we've gone
over selection tool to select parts of
your audio the envelope tool to draw on
little points and make some fades and
fades in and fade out there like that as
you can see the draw tool to actually
change how the waveform looks the zoom
tool the move tool is good because that
can be used these two arrows to move
your audio around on the track as I've
demonstrated in previous videos you can
select parts of your track you can
create a split there and then I can move
two separate parts of the audio track
apart or together as as I wish really
using this and this one here the multi
tool mode that kind of brings everything
together now I can do everything I can
select
I can draw on envelopes I
do all kinds of stuff just in this one
mode but I kind of need to tell it
exactly what I want to do so at the
moment I'm drawing envelopes but it
might be that I want to go back to
selection so I can go back to selection
and there I am in selection multi-tool
kind of brings all of those modes
together those are modes or this is a
mode that you'd be in for the advanced
user so editing an audacity as you can
see is really straightforward make sure
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