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Setting up to Record Audio in Audacity

Lesson 20 from: Audio Recording 101: Record Voice Audio for Video Production

Tomas George

Setting up to Record Audio in Audacity

Lesson 20 from: Audio Recording 101: Record Voice Audio for Video Production

Tomas George

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Lesson Info

20. Setting up to Record Audio in Audacity

<b>In this lesson, you will learn how to set up Audacity so you're ready to record audio.</b>

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Introduction and Welcome to this Course

00:50
2

Listen to your Recording Environment

03:43
3

Room Treatment Tips

03:07
4

Dynamic vs Condenser Microphones

02:35
5

Recommended Pro-Level Microphones

02:55
6

Recommended Budget Level Mics

02:35
7

Microphone Audio Comparisons

05:53
8

What is an Audio Interface and How is it Useful

01:48
9

Recommended Pro-Level Audio Interfaces

01:35
10

Recommended Budget-Level Audio Interfaces

01:46
11

My Thoughts on USB Microphones

00:45
12

Microphone Positioning and Accessories

04:09
13

Essential Microphone Polar Patterns

03:17
14

Recommended Monitors and Headphones

03:55
15

Other Audio Monitoring Tips

02:41
16

Introduction to Capturing Audio

00:18
17

Recommend Audio Recording Software and DAWs

06:28
18

A Quick Look at Some Handy Recorders

02:39
19

Audacity Introduction

00:45
20

Setting up to Record Audio in Audacity

03:49
21

How to Record Audio into Audacity

02:54
22

Other Features of Audacity - Playback, Zoom, Undo + Save

04:15
23

How to Export Audio out of Audacity

03:37
24

Essential Audio Editing Tools in Audacity

08:07
25

Removing Silence, Splitting + Joining Clips

03:17
26

Essential Key Command or Keyboard Shortcuts in Audacity

03:06
27

Removing Background Noise Introduction

02:48
28

How to use the Noise Gate Effect in Audacity

12:54
29

How to use the Noise Reduction Effect in Audacity

11:15
30

Mixing and Processing your Audio Introduction

02:32
31

A Quick Look at the Filter Curve or EQ Effect

10:35
32

A Quick Look at Compression and the Normalize Effect

11:21
33

How to set up an Effects Macro in Audacity

03:23
34

Adding Audio Effects to Audio Clips in Premiere Pro

06:06
35

Gain/Volume in Premiere Pro

03:36
36

Parametric EQ - Part 1 : An Overview of EQ and the Plugin

11:08
37

Parametric EQ - Part 2A : Mixing Examples

15:56
38

Parametric EQ - Part 2B : Mixing Examples - Example 2

11:31
39

Parametric EQ - Part 3 - More Settings + Features

05:14
40

Noise Reduction in Premiere Pro - Part 1: DeNoise

09:24
41

Noise Reduction in Premiere Pro - Part 2: DeReverb

06:25
42

Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 1: Introduction

02:47
43

Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 2: Threshold + Ratio

04:16
44

Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 3: Make up Gain

03:15
45

Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 4: Attack and Release + 2nd Example

06:30
46

How to use a DeEsser Audio Effect in Premiere Pro

12:00
47

How to use the Hard Limiter Audio Effect in Premiere Pro

06:48
48

How to use an Audio Meter in Premiere Pro - Loudness Radar

08:28
49

Behind the Scenes of my Audio Recording Equipment

07:16
50

Thanks and Bye

00:12

Lesson Info

Setting up to Record Audio 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.

Class Materials

Bonus Materials

40._Audio_Examples_for_Noise_Reduction.zip
34._Audio_Examples_for_Premiere_Pro_Audio_Mixing.zip
30._Downloadable_Audio_Examples.zip

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