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Audacity .... |
...A powerful
free software for all audio tinkering |
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Choosing
Initial settings... |
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Before one begins to use Audacity, there are some initial basic
settings required to be done. These are stored for ever and you need not do
these everytime you run audacity. These are available under the tab called
“Edit” / “Preferences”.
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You can set the number of tracks as 1 for mono and 2 for stereo.
2.
It is possible to do new recording over the previously playing
sound file throuhg hardware dubbing or software dubbing. When you record new
sound over the previously playing sound it is called “overdubbing”. Doing this
through software adds a slight delay which can be irretating if you are
recording while listening simultaneously. Hardware dubbing is the best choice.
Here is a tune played several times again and again, adding a new instrument
every time. All done in audacity.
3.
You can reserve the amount of hard disc space for recording
purpose.
4.
Sample rate decides the number of digital samples taken every
second while recording. Higher the sample rate, better is the audio quality.
16000 samples per second are okay for recording a speech. 48100 samples per
second gives good CD quality Audio. Higher sample rate makes the file size
bigger.
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Beginner's guide to
Audacity... |
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