This is where we hit a second major drawback of Audacity- the inability to apply effects in real-time. Once you are happy with the overall balance, you can add some effects and process the sounds further. To the left of each track, you’ll find essential options like Volume and Pan, as well as Mute and Solo buttons. It has basic functions like Copy, Paste, Cut, Trim, and even some advanced options like Time Shift and Detect Silence. What makes Audacity stand out is a mighty and intuitive editing function. If audio is imported, you see clear audio waveforms that can be very useful in navigating the track and finding parts you want to edit. There are two ways to import an audio file- either by going to File>Import and choosing the type of file you want to import or drag and drop it right into the session.

Just make sure to set all the tracks to Mono if you are recording multiple sources simultaneously.Īlso, go through every channel separately to ensure that every channel has the right input level. If that happens, we need to turn down the input gain on our USB interface or input level in Audacity.Īudacity also allows you to do a multi-track recording session in much the same way as a single-channel recording.

Once we enable the monitoring, we want to make sure our recorded signal doesn’t reach the red region of the meter.

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