Audio Editing in Audacity - Basic Course for Beginners

Private individual lessons of basic audio editing and processing with Audacity (online or in person in Trieste).

PREREQUISITES:

Good computer skills

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Those wanting to learn basic notions to manage digital audio for specific purposes: digitisation of old records or casette tapes, recording podcasts, video editing, music.


OBJECTIVES:

to understand how digital audio works and be able to record and process digital audio files, acquiring basic audio editing skills


DURATION AND METHODOLOGY:

6 hours of custom theoretical and practical teaching on the free and open source programme Audacity.

During the course, practical examples and exercises will be presented whenever possible in order to better fix and acquire the explained concepts.


CONTENTS:

  • Basic audio concepts
    • What is sound?
    • Sound waves
    • Mono vs. stereo
    • Playback and recording devices (headphones, speakers, microphones, sound cards, cables)
    • Analogue and digital
    • Areas of use for digital audio (personal recordings, podcasts, audiobooks, dubbing, YouTube and social media, audio restoration, digitisation of analogue media, music, etc.)
  • Audacity: what it is, what it does, how to download and install it
    • Overview of the interface and controls
  • Configuring recording and playback devices, adjusting and monitoring volumes
  • Recording
  • Playback and post-production
  • Selecting, copying and pasting, deleting portions of audio
  • Defect reduction/elimination: levels, pauses, background noise (signal-to-noise ratio), hissing, crackling, breathing, sibilants, plosives
  • Effects: native and external
  • Fundamental concepts for sound processing: frequency, amplitude, dynamic range
  • Equalisation, normalisation, compression, reverb
  • Export: various audio file formats

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