In this video I show you how to use Auto Duck tool and the Envelope Tool in Audacity 3.7.1. Both of these tools come with Audacity and are effective ways to duck the volume of an intro music track on your podcast during a VoiceOver.
User Interface Changes in Audacity 3.7.0
Things have been moved around in the user interface in the recent versions of Audacity. While some options look like they’re gone, they’ve just been relocated. So let me show you a few of the changes.
Contents:
- 00:00 – Intro
- 00:45 – Recording a Reference Track
- 01:24- The Select Button, Bit Depth, and Sample Rate
- 02:32 – Play/Record Head Options
- 03:07 – Legacy Limiter and Compressor
- 04:54 – The Loop Function
- 05:59 – Realtime Effects on the Master Track
- 06:42 – Outro
Cleaning Up The Audacity User Interface
Let’s clean up and de-clutter the Audacity user interface by removing unused toolbars. This will free up valuable space that will give us more room for editing our tracks, while giving us a cleaner look at user interface while working.
Contents:
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:23 Why Clean Up The User Interface?
- 01:01 Removing The Time Signature Toolbar
- 01:53 Removing The Snap Toolbar
- 02:26 Tool Tips and Removing The Time Toolbar
- 03:09 Removing The SelectionToolbar
- 03:40 Removing The Play-at-Speed Toolbar
- 04:14 Using or Removing The Device Toolbar
- 05:26 Pinning The Playhead And Minutes/Seconds
- 06:34 Record And Playback Meter Toolbars
- 07:25 Outro
Enjoy!
Audacity 3.6.2: The Legacy Compressor and Limiter Are Back
With the release of Audacity 3.6.2, came the return of the legacy compressor and the legacy limiter. In this video I show you where they are and why you need to add them back into any macros that use them.
Audacity 3.5.0 Beta Released
I am currently unable to make a video of this because my recording room is getting a facelift, along with new paint, so it’s in complete disarray. But Audacity has released a public beta build of Audacity 3.5.0. It looks like some of the features that were in the alpha build were dropped in this current beta build. I’ve been testing the alpha build for the past couple of weeks and something that showed a lot of promise was the addition of audio meters in the individual tracks. But those meters aren’t present in this beta build. Maybe they’ll come back before the production version is released. I hope so. But they aren’t mentioned in the list of changes.
You can read that list and download your copy of the beta version by going to this link:
https://support.audacityteam.org/additional-resources/changelog/audacity-3.5
That’s it for now. Let me know your thoughts in this beta version of 3.5.0.
How to Fix Low Noise Floor for ACX in Audacity
Someone recently commented on one of my previous videos asking how to fix low noise floor in a project for ACX audiobooks. While the noise floor needs to be less than -60dB to meet ACX requirements, there cannot be silence in your recording. In this video I show you one way to raise your noise floor if it’s too low to meet ACX standards using Audacity.
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