Audacity Bootcamp: Beginner to Advanced
What you'll learn
- Skilled audio editing techniques using Audacity audio recording and editing software
- LUFS loudness standards for podcasts and how to achieve proper LUFS levels for your podcast
- The proper use and function of Audacity plugins
- Applying compression, normalization, and the noise gate in Audacity
- Bass and treble effects and the graphic EQ in Audacity
- Reducing breath and mouth sounds in your Audacity recording
- Eliminating uhms, repeats, and false starts using tools in Audacity
- Using sync-lock tracks in Audacity
- The principles of volume, distortion, and clipped audio in Audacity
Requirements
- There are no prerequisites for this course.
- Audacity Bootcamp takes you from beginner to advanced in your Audacity podcast editing skills
Description
Audacity Bootcamp: Beginner to Advanced explores many of the features and tools within Audacity and how to use them in podcast recording, editing, and production. This course goes way beyond the basics and will help build your confidence and increase your abilities and skills in using Audacity as your podcast editing and production tool. As the name implies this course is for anyone, beginner to advanced, who wants to learn skilled methods of audio editing and production using Audacity. Because of that, there are no prerequisites for this course. Beginning students are encouraged to complete each lesson in the order presented to get the most benefit from the course. But more advanced students may want to complete the lessons most relevant to them. The choice is yours. The course consists of 54 lectures distributed across four sections:
1. Beginning Audacity Bootcamp
2. Intermediate Audacity Bootcamp
3. Advanced Audacity Bootcamp
4. Updates and Bonus Lectures
Along the way, we explore topics like graphic EQ, the filter curve, noise reduction, manipulating audio waveforms, compression, normalization, sample rates, voiceovers, voice frequency, the draw tool, the zero-crossing tool, the limiter, metadata, LUFS and loudness normalization, the noise gate, stereo vs mono, templates, filters, multi track editing, amplify and silence, and Audacity plugins. Section 4, Updates and Bonus Lectures, is where I add new videos as needed to keep the course fresh and up-to-date. As new versions of audacity are released, this section is where we'll discuss what's new in each new version.
If you're looking for a course in Audacity that teaches both the basics of Audacity and takes you beyond the basics to advanced levels of instruction, this course is for you. Plus, you can't beat Udemy's 30 day money back guarantee. Thank you for your interest in Audacity Bootcamp: Beginner to Advanced and I hope to see you inside.
Who this course is for:
- Podcasters, podcast editors and producers, audio editors
- Anyone wanting to learn basic to advanced Audacity podcast editing techniques
Course content
- Preview01:03
- Preview03:41
- 05:25The Audacity User Interface
- Preview01:29
- 12:10Recording Audio Tracks
- 03:26The Selection Toolbar
- 04:47Keyboard Shortcuts
- 05:40Audacity Waveforms
- 12:23The Play/Record Head
- 05:17Creating, Saving, and Opening Projects
- 05:58Audio Tracks: Selecting Tracks
- Preview03:37
- 04:30Waveform Views
- 04:46Audio Tracks: Solo, Mute, Collapse, and Expand Tracks
- 04:27Audio Tracks: Balance and Volume Slider Bars
- 11:54Audio Tracks: Sample Rates
- Preview03:24
- 10:39Delete, Split, Move, and Join Audio
Instructor
With 6 consecutive years’ experience editing and producing podcasts using Audacity, in addition to previous Pro Audio music mixing and production, I have the knowledge and experience necessary to provide you with the skills required for successful and professional podcast editing and production using Audacity. I currently edit, produce, and host three podcasts of my own using Audacity as my editing software.