Audio Recording Setup in Audacity
Lesson 13 from: Audio Production: Record Better AudioTomas George
Audio Recording Setup in Audacity
Lesson 13 from: Audio Production: Record Better AudioTomas George
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13. Audio Recording Setup in Audacity
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My Recommended Budget Audio Recording Setup
03:58 2Microphones for Video and Filmmakers
04:35 3Different Microphones and their uses
07:56 4Microphone Accessories
04:41 5Boom Operating Tips
03:21 6Microphone Accessories to Reduce Wind Noise
01:58 7Audio Interfaces and Examples
06:06 8Headphones and Monitors
01:46Room Treatment Tips
06:17 10Room Treatment Example
01:09 11My Recommended Audio Travel Gear
06:15 12Introduction to Audacity
00:45 13Audio Recording Setup in Audacity
03:49 14How to Record Audio in Audacity
02:54 15Playback, Zoom, Undo + Saving in Audacity
04:15 16How to Export Audio out of Audacity
03:37 17Audacity's Essential Audio Editing Tools
08:07 18Removing Silence, Splitting + Joining Clips
03:17 19Audacity's Essential Key Command or Keyboard Shortcuts
03:06 20Removing Background Noise Introduction
02:48 21Audacity's Noise Gate Effect
12:29 22Audacity's Noise Reduction Effect
11:15 23Introduction to Mixing and Processing Audio in Audacity
02:32 24A Brief Look at the Filter Curve or EQ Effect
10:35 25A Brief Look at Compression and the Normalize Effect
11:21 26Setting up an Effects Macro in Audacity
03:23 27Outboard Gear - The DBX 286s
05:26 28Thanks and Bye
00:12Lesson Info
Audio Recording Setup in Audacity
Hi there and welcome to this video where we're going to be looking at setting up audacity. So you're ready to record audio. So when you open up audacity for the first time, it may look something like this. So you can always click and drag to resize audacity. So I'm just going to click and drag from the corner. So this software fills up the entire screen. You also notice that we have this blank space in the middle here. And when we record our audio, this is where the audio waves will be displayed. And we also have these buttons at the top. The main ones we're going to be looking at in the next few videos is this transport section over here and we'll also be looking at the input monitoring section here as well. OK. So the first thing I would do is actually change the sample rate of the project. So if you go down to the bottom left, you can see the sample rate is 44, and I would actually change this to 48,000. So we can click on the arrow here and change it to 48,000. So 48,000 is the sta...
ndard sample rate for audio when working with video for music, 44,100 is often used. But if you want to record audio for video, then I recommend using 96,000 as well is one of the recommended sample rates for youtube videos. So let's just choose this next, let's select our audio host. So this is the interface between audacity and the sound device. So if you're on Mac, it should say core audio up here. And if you're on Windows, I recommend selecting Windows W ASAP, I as this driver will give you less latency or recording delay. So I recommend choosing Windows W ASAP I for your Windows user in this box here. But for Windows users, if you experience any issues when recording, you could try another driver as well to see if that resolves the issue. OK? Next, we have the microphone input so you can click on here and select your audio interface. My mic is plugged in this one here. Claret 43 USB. If you're using a USB mic, it should appear here as well. OK. Going along, we can choose whether we want our recording to be a mono or stereo. The microphone I'm speaking into right now is a mono microphone. So I'm going to select number one mono. Also for most voiceover mics, the microphone will be mono. So if you are using a mono mic, I recommend selecting mono as a file size will be smaller. Some microphones for recording music may be stereo but generally microphones for podcasts or voiceovers will be mono. So I recommend selecting mono here. Next, we have the audio output. So here you can select where you want to hear your audio. So if your headphones or speakers are plugged into your computer, you could select built in output or if your headphones or speakers are plugged into your audio interface, you could select your audio interface from here. However, as I'm recording this screencast tutorial, I'm going to select the top one here. OK. Now let's monitor our audio to make sure it works fine. So we have this button up here that says click to start monitoring. So let's click this now and now you can see the level on the audio meter when I'm talking. So we never want this to go above zero DB because if it goes above zero DB, it will clip or distort our audio and this won't sound good at all. So generally I want my audio around about minus 12 and I want the peaks or the loudest points to be below minus six and definitely below zero. So if your audio is too loud, you can turn it down on your audio interface or if it's not quite loud enough, you can turn it up on your audio interface. We can always turn our audio up after once we've recorded it, we want to make sure it doesn't clip when we're recording, depending on what type of mic you're using, you may be able to turn down your microphone input with this slider here. But as I'm using an audio interface, it won't allow me to do so as I can change the game on my audio interface. OK. So now we're all set up ready to record and in the next video we're going to be recording audio into audacity. Thanks for watching and I'll see you there.
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