Free Audio Editor – Audacity
November 23, 2009 by Jay
Filed under Audio/Visual, Featured
Audacity is a powerful free audio editor and audio recording software program that is recommended by many online business professionals. If your looking to record audio, mix sounds and tracks together, or edit your live audio, Audacity can help.
Audacity provides a user-friendly interface with which to record and edit your audio. Within about 10 minutes of opening the program we had a fully edited and compressed audio track. For our purposes we felt that importing an audio track, recording my voice, and merging the tracks would be a good test of the usability and functionality of the software. After reading through the help menu for about 5 minutes we were off and running. I began by adding an mp3 audio track that I found over at Incomepetech. Incompetech is a royalty free music website where you can search through hundreds of free music tracks.
After the audio mp3 file was added I edited the length of the track to something reasonable for my message. I then edited the music track so that it would fade in and fade out based on my recorded audio message. Once these two tracks were finished I saved the tracks as a single mp3 file and the process was done. What we like the most was the interface which made it very easy to perform this task.
You’ll see that the software has many more features that can be utilized such as:
• Recording from multiple sources
• Adding audio effects such as echo and wahwah
• Altering of frequencies such as bass and treble
• Volume level monitoring
• And much more…
Audacity 1.2.6 is the download version that is fully functional. At this time they are working on a new version of the software that will provide additional features. Until then the 1.2.6 version should get the job done for you.
To learn more about Audacity and to get a copy of the free fully functional download, visit http://audacity.sourceforge.net/.
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I am a salsa dancing, Spanish speaking, guitar playing and risk seeking kind of guy. I live in Boise, ID with my 2 energetic boys and wife Erika. I love bringing new ideas and thoughts into reality. I am the creator of the FreebieBizWorld blog that helps entrepreneurs succeed by finding free business tools and offers.
I was searching for sites to get more info on audio recording schools and I came across your blog. Ever heard of PAVI? I would like to hear your opinion on schools I could apply too.
To be honest the only audio recording school that I know of would be Full Sail. This is more of a university type setting but very hands-on.