How to Record and Edit a Podcast in Audacity (Complete Tutorial) #Best Education Page #Online Earning

- Hey, it's Pat here, and in this video,

I'm gonna teach you how to use Audacity, a free software,

so that you can edit and record your podcasts.

This is available for both Mac and PC users.

I'll show you exactly how you can make sure

your mics are all set up properly, your levels are OK.

And, also, we'll do a little test recording, too.

I'll show you exactly how to do that.

But also, just realize that this is a lesson

that's actually pulled out

from my more premium course, Power Up Podcasting,

so it may reference other parts of that course.

If it happens, don't worry about it.

Just go in, learn how to use Audacity and have fun.

This is a tutorial for those of you

who are going to be using the free tool,

Audacity, to edit your podcasts.

It's great for recording, for editing,

for mixing, for multi-tracks.

Similar to Garage Band, it's great to use and it's free.

And to get it, all you have to do is go to audacityteam.org.

Again, that's audacityteam.org

and it's great if you're a Windows user

because you can just download it right to your computer.

It's also available for Mac, and also Linux, too.

But, mostly, those of you who are watching this

are likely gonna be on Windows because you've been looking

for a free solution to edit your show, and here it is.

I'm gonna show you exactly how to use it, right now.

OK, here we are in a blank Audacity file

and the first thing you want to make sure is

that the microphone that you want to use is

the one that's selected as the input device.

And the Input Device area is right here

next to this little microphone,

and all you have to do is click on this drop-down menu

and just make sure that the microphone you want is there.

And if it's not, if your ATR microphone is maybe not there,

make sure it's turned on, make sure it's plugged in,

make sure it's all good,

and then it should be available for you to select.

Then, you could choose between Mono Input Channel

and Stereo Input Channel.

And, typically, I recommend recording your voice

with your podcast for Mono, or in Mono,

and that means your voice

that you record is gonna be heard equally

on both the left-hand side and the right-hand side

without any worry of having it pan

between the left and right side

or having it be only in one ear.

It kind of sounds weird when you're listening to something

and it's only coming in on one ear.

Now, sometimes, just to warn you,

when you import a file from an external source,

maybe it's an MP3 file that is your interview

that you recorded with somebody on Skype

or maybe it's the music that you downloaded online

or the voiceover that you received from somebody,

when you import it, typically,

it may actually be in stereo.

And that's OK, as long as when you play it back,

you're hearing it equally

on both the left and right-hand side.

That's what matters and, typically, you won't have

to ever worry about that anyway,

just kind of wanted to give you that warning.

Now, we're gonna do a test recording here

and then we're gonna play around

with that file and those tracks.

And then I'm gonna import other tracks

and show you how to create an episode on the fly, here,

so that you know how to use these tools

and then you can move forward

with the tutorials in this particular module.

So, to record in Audacity, all you have to do

is click on this red button, here.

And then, I'm going to do that right now

and just start talking,

and I'll play this back for you in just a minute,

but I want you to notice a few things.

Right now, you can see that it's mapping my voice

in the form of waveforms, here,

and there's little peaks and valleys.

And the number one thing you need to worry about is

if those peaks are extending too high,

kind of outside of this region of this track

and if it is doing that, then you are too loud.

That's called clipping.

Clipping is bad because when a person listens

to an audio file that's clipped, it's gonna sound distorted.

It's not gonna sound very pretty at all.

And if you notice that that's happening

now when you're testing,

and you will be doing a test to check this out,

all you have to do is adjust the volume on the fly, here,

with this little Input Volume slider

and that will help you adjust it one way or another.

The best practice, the best ideal situation

is to, as you are speaking normally,

in your normal podcast speaking voice when you are recording

that it's never getting beyond the outer limits here

and it's getting as close to the top as possible.

Sometimes, you'll record it and it'll be very small

and, yes, you can sort of raise the volume levels there,

but the best practice, the best quality audio

will be when it's just like this,

quite high into the 0.5 to 1.0 region

without getting or extending beyond those parts.

Now, I'm gonna click Stop to stop

and just kind of warning you

that when you are editing your files,

which I'll show you in a second, don't click Pause.

When you click Pause and try to edit,

actually, all of your editing features will go away

and it'll become very frustrating

and you're not gonna know why.

If, for whatever reason, you find that your editing tools

are just not working for you,

it may be because you paused instead of stopped.

So just practice using the Stop button

instead of the Pause button here on Audacity.

Now, you can see that we recorded

a nearly one minute and 15 seconds worth

of audio here and that's great.

I'm gonna click on this button, here,

to skip back to the beginning and then just press Play

and show you what happens.

That, right now and just start talking,

and I'll play this back for you in just a minute,

but I want you to notice a few things.

Right now, you can see that it's mapping my voice

in the form of waveforms here and there's a little.

OK, so that works out and checks out pretty good.

Now, what I want to do is, actually,

before I start editing and slicing

and show you how to move things around,

I'm actually gonna import some music, really quick,

and show you how easy this is to do.

And then, I'm going to show you actually

how to adjust the volumes of certain things

so that your voice can kind of come over the the music

and the music won't be too loud

and all those sorts of things.

Now, I have a file here, an MP3 file,

that I downloaded from a website

that has royalty-free music.

And this allows me to use it in my podcast with no worry

of somebody like saying, "Hey, that's my song."

So to import these things,

and you can also import voiceovers that you get

and also, like I said earlier,

your interviews that you have.

To put them in here, all you have to do

is click on that file and drag and drop it

and literally just let go in Audacity

and it should map out its own track for you, right, there.

And you can see this song is about 2 1/2 minutes long.

It's a little too long

because my voice only goes over to this part

and, of course, remember this is just a demonstration,

so I'm just kind of showing you how to use the tools,

but let's say that I want to remove

this end portion, here, of this song.

To do that, all you have to do is

click on this Selection tool

which is typically there by default,

but I'm just gonna click on that and start here,

select this area after my voice and that highlights it.

You can see it's a different color and that's kind of,

that's the thing that I'm focusing on right now

and all I have to do to delete that is

just click Delete on my keyboard and there you go.

Now, there's a number of different ways

to zoom in to this area.

My favorite way is just to Simply click this button, here,

which is called Fit Project.

You can use these plus and minus magnifying glasses,

here, too, but this will essentially just have it

stretch out to the length of your window,

so I'm gonna do that right now

so I can see things a little bit better.

Now, if I were to click Play,

you'll notice that there's two tracks here.

And, yes, there are three lines

and that's because this second track here,

the one that I just highlighted,

this is a song that's actually in stereo.

And in stereo, you see actually the left side

and the right side.

Now, like I said, because they're both equal on both sides,

you can actually see that here,

I don't have to worry about it.

It's when you see one of them flat

and one of them having sound,

that means it's only gonna come out in one ear

and it's gonna sound very weird.

You can actually adjust this if you wanted to

using this tool, here,

which is the Pan tool and I can adjust it.

You'll see the L, here, for left and the R, here, for right.

You can move things to the left side or the right side.

Typically when you're recording a podcast,

you don't need to do that.

When you're recording music, then that's more relevant.

So, let's see, what I want to do now is not play it for you

because I can tell that when, if I were to play it for you,

the music's gonna be too loud,

the voice is gonna be too loud.

It's just going to be a lot of stuff going on.

Typically, what happens when you record a podcast is

that the music will come in,

and then your voice will come in later,

so I'm gonna show you how to do that, right now.

And to move things around, you're gonna use this tool, here,

that's the Time Shift tool and I'm gonna show you

what happens when I do this, right now.

I'm actually gonna zoom out a little bit

'cause I know I'm going to need some extra room.

So I'm gonna click on the Time Shift tool

and what this allows me to do is literally move these things

that I've already recorded or inputted around.

And that just makes it very easy,

and typically these things will snap into place for you

to, you know, places like in the beginning,

and that's how you do that.

Now, typically, you're gonna want to move certain parts.

So let's say, for example, that I wanted

to break up this in the middle and then move it.

Now, to do that, you have to actually select

the portion of the, actually, go to your Selection tool,

then select the part of the track

that you want to kind of have as the breaking point.

Now, quick tip, don't select this part at the top, here.

This will kind of auto-play that part.

That's mostly used for music

and to listening things over and over and over again.

If you want to select a certain portion of the timeline,

click within a track that you're working in.

So I'm just gonna click in there, for example,

and, as you could see,

that just that puts a little finger right there,

showing me that's precisely where I want the break to be.

And, of course, you might need to play it

and kind of zoom in a little bit

to make sure that's correct.

But, for now, I'm just gonna do this portion right here.

I'm gonna break up this single track, not both tracks,

but just this single track only.

And to do that, all you have to do is select that part

and go to Edit, Clip Boundaries, and Split,

or you can use Control + I on your PC

or Command + I on your Mac.

And I'm gonna do that, right now,

and you'll see that that hardly did anything at all, right.

It kind of just made this little black line,

but that line's really important

because now when I use my Time Shift tool,

when I move, this part opens up.

Now, I'm not moving the whole thing

because it's broken in the middle.

And now, let's say, for example, this is the part

in the intro where I wanted to feature this music,

so I want this part, the music, to stand out here

and kind of my voice to go away

which is why that's broken like that.

Now, I have some little extra parts here at the end of this,

so what I'm gonna do is actually hit the Selection tool,

remove that bit there, and now it's even.

Now, let's say I want the beginning

to be just the music.

So I'm gonna actually use the Time Shift tool,

move this over a little bit, too.

So, as you can see, this is just, just becomes a way

for you to play around with things.

Now, the other important thing I want to share with you

besides, we did deleting already, we did splitting.

Again, remember, splitting it's kind of hard at first.

You go to Edit, you go to Clip Boundaries, and then Split.

Or you can do your Control + I command in your PC

or the Command + I on your Mac.

Now, the last thing I want to share with you is to,

how to adjust the volumes

and kind of have things fade-in, have things fade-out,

all as things are going.

And let's do that, right here, using the Envelope tool.

This is to sort of the volume adjuster tool

as I think it should be called instead,

so I'm going to click on that.

And now, you'll see that it kind of highlights

certain moments of these files, here.

So I'm not gonna adjust the volume within my voice.

I always want that to sort of be at the right volume.

The music is what I want to change.

So wat I want to happen is, this is,

you'll see when you click on this, it adds a little dot

and that dot becomes sort of a point

at which the volume becomes kind of down to that level.

And now, I can take this bar and adjust it a little bit.

It actually creates another dot where I eventually let go

and I can move things around a little bit.

I can sort of adjust it.

So I want the music to start out, you know, quite loud

at that part in the beginning,

and then I want to get softer as my voice comes in.

So I'm actually gonna move it down a little bit more.

I might need to actually move even down more like that.

Now, I'm gonna go back to the beginning

and just play this for you

and kind of we'll just see what it sounds like.

(upbeat pop music)

That, right now, and just start talking,

and I'll play this back for you just a minute,

but I want you to notice a few things.

Right now, you can see that it's mapping my voice.

Now, that was pretty cool, right?

Loud music to start, and then it faded out.

It faded out a little early,

so what I might want to actually do

is kind of move this over a little bit

so I begin talking as it's fading out.

Let's actually try that.

I'm going to go to the Selection Tools,

select this part here, and then click Play.

(upbeat pop music)

That, right now, and just start talking,

and I'll play this back for you in just a minute,

but I want you to note.

Now, that's not bad.

Now, obviously, when I clicked Record earlier,

it was as I was in the middle of a sentence,

so maybe I can make this sound a little bit better

by moving these things over,

and I'm gonna actually record in the middle of this track,

even before all this stuff comes in.

So, to do that, just make sure

that your track is highlighted, the one that you want,

and then click the Select Tool,

I want to start recording at this point,

and just hit Record.

It's gonna pick up right where you cursor is, watch.

(upbeat pop music)

Hey guys, thanks so much for being here.

I appreciate you, and you're awesome.

Let's keep going here, boom.

Oh no, what happened?

I recorded up here and I was in this track

and now it recorded a new track down here.

What's going on, ah?

Don't worry, I did that on purpose

because this used to really bother me.

I wasn't really understanding what was going on,

but here's the deal.

When you hit the Record button,

whether it's this red button here

or you go and click the R button,

which is the shortcut to Record,

it always starts where you left off

or where your Selection tool is selected in the timeline,

but it always adds a new track.

If I were to hit record, now,

(upbeat pop music)

you'll see that it adds a fourth track, down below,

and that's not cool; I wanted that to be up here.

So what's going on?

Well, there may be opportunities and times

where you want to create a new track

and that's totally OK.

But if you don't want these things

that you mistakenly recorded,

all you have to do is click on the X button

at the top left corner of each of these tracks, here,

and that'll get rid of it.

We want to record and add to this file, here.

Now, there's a couple of ways to do that,

to add to this particular track.

The first one is called Append Record

and that means to add to the end of this recording.

So when you append this recording,

and I'll show you the button to do that in just a moment,

it'll always start where you left off on this track.

The very last bit of audio,

it'll just pick up right from there.

And to do that, you go to Transport,

and then hit Append Record.

That'll always work to record at the very end.

No matter where you are selected in the timeline, here,

it'll always start recording at the end on this side.

But I would recommend, if you're gonna do that,

to hit Shift + R because that's a lot more convenient

and it just makes more sense to do that.

So just keep that in mind.

Now, what is the use case for this?

Well, let's say, for example,

you're recording on one single track just like this

and you're going fine

and then you might be forgetting something

you're about to say, so you hit Stop,

and you want to pick up right where you left off

because you were gonna look down at your notes

or kind of reframe what you're talking about

or just try and figure out what to say really quick

before you hit Record again.

Just hit Shift + R to continue where you left off.

I know it's kind of weird and inconvenient.

But, at first, yeah, it's kind of weird,

but you actually get used to it over time.

Don't hit this Record button

or else it'll pick up right where you left off,

but in a new track and then you can have to Copy, Paste

or drag and drop that back into that other track

which is a minor inconvenience.

But all you have to do is

just make sure that track is selected.

Again, it could be anywhere you want,

and then hit Shift + R

and it'll add to the that, just like this.

So, as you can see, it's just adding

to the end of this track, just like that.

Now, let's say that you actually wanted

to record something here.

And remember, we made the intro music loud

and we faded out so that we could come in with our voice.

And this part, here,

in the beginning of what we initially recorded

was kind of weird, so we're gonna record something else

and add it in there.

How do we do that?

How do we record right into a initial track like this?

Well, you're gonna actually have to create a new track

and then just Copy and Paste and put it in there

and it's just very simple.

So, all we have to do is click Record.

And, actually, one thing I like to do

when I'm recording a new section is

to kind of mute everything else.

So, there's a couple things you can do.

You can mute the existing things,

like for this music, I'm going to mute that

'cause I know that's playing at this part

which I'm going to record over.

And then, I'll unmute that

when I play it later just to hear it.

So I muted it here.

Now, this Solo button,

that's if you only want to hear that track

and everything else means automatically.

So, as we can see, that other track muted, there,

and any other tracks would mute at the same time.

So I'm gonna click Mute because I don't want to hear that

and I'm gonna record and, like I said,

that we're gonna record it in a new track

below this music track,

but then we'll do something with it really quick

to move it back up here and move things around, so.

Hey guys, what's up?

It's Pat, here.

Thank you so much for joining me on this show.

Today, we're gonna we're gonna be talking

about this and that, and then also that.

So, there you go.

So I'm gonna play this back

and I'm actually gonna turn the music back on.

And we haven't moved it yet,

but I just want to show you what this sounds like.

(upbeat pop music)

Hey, guys, what's up?

It's Pat, here.

Thank you so much for joining me on this show.

Today, we're gonna be talking

about this and that, and then also that.

(upbeat pop music)

So, kind of cool, right?

The music came in and then it faded out.

My voice came in.

I could probably move it over just a little bit more,

like kind of over to here,

to give myself a little bit more room.

And then, the music keeps playing.

It's just kind of like background music as I'm talking.

And then, typically, what would happen is,

you would fade that music out,

not have it abruptly end like that as I continued to talk.

And that just becomes a very professional, but easy, way

to kind of have a fading sequence

into sort of the content of your show

and that's pretty cool.

Now let's continue on here.

I want to get this up here.

How do we do that?

Well, there's a couple ways to do that.

You can double-click on this.

Actually, make sure the Selection tool is on.

Double-click on that and hit Copy,

or you can got to Edit and Copy.

Just come up here and then Paste that

and then you can move it around to where you want to move it

using the Time Shift tool, so I'm gonna do that there.

I'm gonna move this back, and move this around.

I'm gonna take this part off the end there.

And then, I'm gonna remove this clip

because I've already pasted it.

And there you go.

So let's listen to this again.

(upbeat pop music)

Hey, guys, what's up?

It's Pat, here.

Thank you so much for joining me on.

Cool, that sounds great.

Now, the last thing I want to share with you

before I show you how to export with this tool,

and then you can get into the further lessons

to kind of walk you through the entire process, here,

of creating your master file,

putting your episodes together,

all those sorts of things, really easily.

If, let's say, for example, that this section, here,

actually let me fit to screen,

this section that we have highlighted here,

let's say this is like a coughing fit that I had

or sneeze or a mistake that I know I made.

I want to remove that,

but then I also want to add into that.

So there's a couple ways to do that.

Typically, I would just like delete this,

but then I would hit Edit, Clip Boundaries, and Split.

You can do that, remember Command + I or Control + I,

and now I can move things around

so I can insert a file or audio track

or audio recording into that.

So I'm just gonna move that around.

You know, I got rid of that coughing fit, which is great,

but then I'm gonna hit that,

(upbeat pop music) right there.

Actually, that's the thing you don't want to do

is click on this area up here.

It autoplays wherever.

If you wanted to just autoplay at a particularly point,

just click in the timeline up here where the numbers are,

fly here, with, like that. (upbeat pop music)

That just makes it really easy to listen

(pre-recorded track drowns out speech)

but, typically, when you are editing,

that's very frustrating.

And, again, make sure that when you select

a certain time point in your timeline, here,

select it within a track like that

and you won't have to worry about it autoplaying like that.

But, again, I want to move things around

and just kind of make room

for a file that I'm about to record.

And so let's go into the Selection tool.

I'm gonna pick it up right where I left off, right there,

and then I'm gonna hit Record.

It's gonna record into a third track,

and then I'm just gonna kind of copy and paste it

and put it in there, no problem.

Hey, guys, this is what I meant to say.

And, there you go, so I'm gonna copy that.

I'm just gonna click on that and paste it

and move things back to where they were.

And, yes, this is gonna take a little bit of practice.

It does seem like it's a lot of hard work upfront,

and it is, but you'll get used to it.

You're gonna find that you're gonna make

less mistakes over time.

I'm gonna delete this.

And now, this kind of file has been inserted into the middle

where that coughing fit was and we are A-OK.

That's less common than, say, for example,

you know you picked up right where you left off before,

so, typically, you'll just kind of

remove the error portion there, hit Delete,

and then things

just kind of squeeze together nicely for you.

And then, you kind of like zoom into that area

to kind of get very precise with where you want to go

and how you want things to be cut.

And then, you can kind of fit to screen again

and then things just fall into place which is great.

So, there you go, that's how you use

the basic editing tools here on Audacity

for you to be able to kind of put your show together.

Yeah, so that's how you do it.

Now, the last thing I want to show you is how to export.

It's quite simple, actually.

All right, to export, all you have to do

is go to File, and then Export, very simple.

And then, name it.

You're gonna, I'm gonna name it as Sample File,

and then, where to save it.

And then, you want to click on the format.

Now, WAV file is a very common audio format,

although, compared to an MP3 file,

it's significantly larger,

so you going to take up more space.

If you going to share this with anybody

or upload it to any tools,

which you will potentially do later in this course,

it's gonna take a little bit longer.

So I typically recommend to select MP3 files,

and then the quality can be anywhere in this upper level.

I like 192, it's not a huge deal.

When you get into the lower levels, here,

which will significantly decrease the file size,

it'll definitely significantly decrease

the quality of that file as well.

So just keep it in the upper levels, up here, hit OK.

And now, when I hit Save, there's one more step.

It's gonna ask me if I want to edit any of this metadata.

Now, I'm gonna share with you in a later video

exactly how to edit your metadata.

You don't need to do it right now,

but I would recommend actually clearing this out

because, as you can see here,

the artist name, the track title,

this is all related to the music that I imported in here.

We don't want that, so I'm gonna clear that out

and I'm just gonna hit OK,

and I'm just gonna leave it at that.

Your tracks will be mixed down to two stereo channels.

That's totally fine.

Don't show this warning again, OK.

And then, it's just gonna think a little bit,

and then we are good to go, and that's that.

So that was a deep dive on how to use Audacity

to edit and record your podcast, which is fantastic,

but obviously there's a lot more components

to setting up your podcast properly, of course.

Now, if you aren't already in my mini class,

you can actually get access

to that three-day mini class right now for free,

by going to podcastingtutorial.com.

It'll walk you through a three-day process

to help you get your podcast set up from scratch,

to up on iTunes so that people can find it.

So, if you're ready for that,

go to podcastingtutorial.com,

if you aren't there already and taking my mini class.

So, thank you so much and good luck on your show.

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