• Intro
• Why bother with audio?
• What we're going to cover
• Why Audacity?
• Equipment
• Tooling up

This lecture will introduce the Audacity product and some of its basic features, and will show you how to use it to record and save your vocals. It will also talk a bit about how to deal with mistakes made during recording.

This lecture will cover how to edit the audio you recorded in step one to fix any mistakes you made, and to eliminate imperfections in the audio that arose during the recording process. Specifically, the lecture will cover the following items:

1. Normalization
2. Reviewing your audio and marking the location of defects in your file
3. Removing your defects
4. Replacing removed audio
5. Removing background noise
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This lecture will cover how to add a musical intro to your audio to make it sound more professional. It will teach you:

1. How to obtain free music for use in your intro
2. How to mix the music into your vocals
3. How to align the vocals with the intro to ensure the timing is correct

This lecture covers how to create the final MP3 output of your audio product. Topics include exporting to MP3 format, and tagging your MP3 file with the correct information to make it usable by MP3 audio devices and software players.