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Saturday, August 1, 2020

A Little Known Well Known Secret

Today I want to write about a software known as Audacity.

Audacity is a free, open-source, audio recording and manipulating software.  With this software, you can record multi-track and edit audio files of many types including .wav, .flac, and .mp3.  You can download it at https://www.audacityteam.org/, and it works on Windows, Mac-OS and Linux.

This wonderful recording application is perfect for recording demos and podcasts on the fly.  It supports a host of plugins and effects.  There is a complete wiki-style manual available here --> https://manual.audacityteam.org/index.html that gives step-by-step instructions, complete with screenshots, that deal with just about every aspect of the recording process.  There is even a section that deals with latency, and how to correct it.

Click image for more screenshots
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I recorded a simple acoustic piece, Idyllwild, with rhythm on one track and lead on another.  I quadrupled the lead track out and tripled the rhythm track and applied some compression as is normal to give them width. But otherwise left the recording dry.  You can hear it either on the player on the top right ot the page, or by clicking here --> http://www.reverbnation.com/open_graph/song/28181289

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