Tutorial - Your First Recording



This set of tutorials provide a guide to making your first microphone, guitar or keyboard recording with Audacity.

The Tutorials
This tutorial has been broken into several sub-tutorials for ease of reading as there is a lot of material to read and digest. The following topics are covered and should be followed in the order presented here:


 * 1) Tutorial - Connecting Up
 * 2) Tutorial - Connecting a Microphone
 * 3) Tutorial - Connecting an Instrument
 * 4) Tutorial - Connecting a Mixer
 * 5) Tutorial - Audacity Settings for Recording
 * 6) Tutorial - Selecting Your Input
 * 7) Tutorial - Making a Test Recording
 * 8) Tutorial - Recording and Editing

Where to go from here
Take some time to play with Audacity. Record and edit more material. Practice editing. Try out different effects.

Tutorials

 * Tutorial - Mixing a Narration With Background Music
 * Tutorial - Copying tapes, LPs or minidiscs to CD
 * Tutorial - Editing an Existing Audio File

For more information

 * Getting sound into Audacity: Audacity Wiki - Troubleshooting Recordings
 * Improving Recording Quality: Audacity Wiki - Improving Recording Quality
 * Editing a track: Edit Menu, Zooming
 * Effects: Effect Menu
 * Saving: Audacity Projects
 * Exporting: File Menu > Export...
 * If you need help and can't find it in the manual or the wiki, try visiting the Audacity Forum.