Audacity Professional Vocals for Courses Video & More Part 1 (Udemy.com)
Use Audacity FREE audio software to record & edit vocals: Install, Overview, Record & Edit for video and audio projects
Created by: Eric Larson
Last updated June 2017
What you will learn
- Install Audacity audio recording and editing software and utilize its basic functions with the overall future goal of using it to create and edit vocal recordings for professional results used in videos, online courses, YouTube videos, podcasts, narration and voiceover projects, and more.
How it compares
Against the other 1,210 rated Udemy courses in Business on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 15% of them
- Reviews625#589 of 1,211 by number of reviews
- Length2.8 hoursshorter than 50% of them
- Last updatedJune 2017earlier than 95% of them
Course Description
Do you want to improve the overall quality of your vocal recordings for online courses, YouTube videos, voiceovers, narration, or other projects? Audacity FREE audio software and the techniques taught in this course and our other course “Audacity Professional Vocals for Courses Video & More Part 2” will get you the professional results you’ve been looking for.
Hi my name is Eric. I am a course creator and have learned many lessons throughout my recording experiences. I created this course for anyone who wants to improve the quality of their audio vocal recordings for video or audio projects by learning the basics of audio recording and the Audacity audio recording and editing software.
In this course, “Part 1”, we will review and install Audacity FREE audio recording and editing software, to give you a thorough overview and to prepare you for “Part 2” where we use the software to clean up noise, mistakes, problems, and fix level issues and overall volume and clarity for a professional result…
We will cover:
· An Audio Recording and Editing Overview
· Introduction to Audacity
· Audacity website and robust documentation and support sites
· Installation instructions and demonstration for Audacity
· Installation of third-party plug-ins
· A detailed review of Audacity functions and tools
· Recording audio with Audacity
· A recording overview using screencast software
· Initial audio editing outside of Audacity for preparation (applying to screencast or video software)
· Exporting a udio from other projects for use in Audacity
· Importing audio in to Audacity
· Initial audio analysis and editing with Audacity
· Practice challenges/homework assignments to give you hands-on experience
Take our course “Part 2” to learn more, using real life audio examples to meticulously clean up noise, mistakes, problems, and fix level issues and overall volume, clarity, and quality for a professional result, followed by exporting the final audio and importing into our screencast or video projects, and lastly a quick review of multi-track audio recording and mixing to take your audio to the next level. Part 2 also includes downloadable Audacity projects and audio files so you can follow along and practice with the actual projects used in the course.
Enroll in this course today to get started using Audacity audio software to get professional audio results for all of your audio and video projects.
Instructor Details
- 4.3 Rating
625 Reviews
Eric Larson
Hi my name is Eric Larson. I have been working with Internet technologies, and audio and video for over fifteen years, and have managed and trained operations teams for nearly ten years in a large corporate environment. I am very excited to be bringing this experience to my online courses as a Udemy instructor.
After receiving a four-year college degree in Business, I spent 21 years in the corporate world. I started my career as a purchasing agent for a leading wholesale building products supplier, and learned many of the basics about business, personal responsibility, organization, working with a team, and internal and external business relationships.
Feeling the need to be more creative, I left this position and taught myself web development and design, and graphic design, which I have now been doing for over 15 years. These new skills landed me a job working for an Internet search engine as a Data Analyst. This experience in a high-tech, start-up business culture gave me a whole new perspective on business and technology. Only three years into this new career, however, I found myself unemployed after the company was bought and then subsequently shut down. I used this time of unemployment to further my skills in web design and landed a consulting job building a website for a medical lab design and manufacturing company.
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Reviews
By Thomas S. Elliott on 7/12/2020
There was reference to downloadable projects so we could follow along, but there were no files for download. I had to create my own files, so I was able to get hands on, but the waveforms were different, and the results were different.
By Biswajit Banerjee on 11/12/2019
An excellent course on Audacity! It truly stands above expectations! The delivery is extremely professional, and the lessons tell you what one needs to know about Audacity before one gets down to editing one's projects. The course is free yet far better than all the training programs on Audacity I have done so far. As an audiobook narrator, I have been looking for a course like this. I heartily thank the producers for this brilliant course and look forward to taking part 2 of the course soon.
By Paweł Drozdowski on 4/28/2019
This course gives you a basic knowlege about recording and editing audio for free. After the course you'll be able to prepare yourself for recording and clean your audio file from noises. A very good course for people who want to make a decent podcast or simple sound effect. You should check out part 2 for more advanced lessons.
By Lawrence Meisel on 1/1/2019
Clearly explained, and seems that it will be thorough. This is the information that I was looking for years ago when I first tried to record a relaxation training script. I'm looking forward to the rest of the information - especially about how to overdub the relaxation script with nature sounds in the background. I'm even getting interested in learning how to record video and screen casting to produce videos for posting on YouTube.
By Mrs.R.L. on 3/13/2018
The instructor presents this course in a well thought out manner, giving you a thorough & in-depth introductory education about using Audacity in an easy to understand & follow format. It lays the groundwork to set you up for creating successful professional projects you will be proud to say you produced; I can't wait to start part 2.
By Rob Meade on 3/8/2018
I am actually quite blown away by how professional this "free" course is. I have taken my time running through it this afternoon and have really enjoyed it and feel that I have come away with a much better understanding of the features within Audacity. As a user of Camtasia some of the content was familiar to me, but this was still of great value and even if you do not use Camtasia, similar products will incorporate the same/similar functionality. Despite this course being a couple of years old now, and the current version of Audacity being 2.2.2, the content and information provided in this course is just as valid now as when it was recorded. It has been a little while since I have been so impressed with a "free" course that I felt compelled to enroll in another by the same instructor, especially for a paid course. Thank you so much Eric for putting this free course together and for the excellent delivery and information it contains. "Part 2" purchased! :)
By Scott Haas on 12/21/2017
This is a "free" part one of two parts and is a basic overview. As a new user of Audacity this course has made me feel very comfortable with the basic controls. I also have some resources to research anything I need beyond this course as well. I have now completed Part One and was so impressed I immediately signed up for Part Two. Very good instructor. Pacing is perfect and very knowledgeable on the subject. I had an immediate need for this information and was able to successfully edit a bit of audio and it sounded pretty good in the end. Once I complete Part Two I feel as though I will be a whiz at Audacity and will be able to clean up the audio even more. Naturally the audio in this course is very good but the visuals are well done also. There are a few Audacity courses on Udemy and I am very glad I chose this one.
By Alex Smith on 11/2/2017
This course is so far clear and concise. It shows how to install, setup and record using Audacity and introduces you to screencast software. Introductory level course but very beneficial. The latter part of the course introduces you to editing techniques and give great tips on how to arrange your workflow to avoid unrecoverable mistakes. While a little light on specific detail for editing, it serves as a perfect introduction and leads seamlessly into the more advanced and detailed part 2 training. Overall an excellent beginners course.
By Rudyard von on 11/2/2017
This is one of the great course in audacity editing and camtasia editing for a beginners you will really learn a lot of the foundation with multiple hands on examples on editing the sound and video in camtasia and going through exporting this is really a practical course that will teach from the start on what actually you have to do first on editing. There is an overview section explaining each detail so you can have this reference so in the future you can take the skill to the next level by using the resources and lecture in this course. Each lecture is explain clearly and with fine details on it that you can follow. Learn and apply all the lessons in this course and start editing videos and audios with awesomeness and refinement. Take this course and start becoming a audio and video editor master and skyrocket your business productivity and sales. Thank you so much :D
By Mohamed Ragab Hemeda on 5/11/2016
a very poor course , you wasted my day in order to make us pay in the next course , you just wasted my time , if you wanna make people pay in another one ,so make something that value ,not just intros with no end ,and repeating of info many times in many shapes - hope you do your best in your next courses ,thats my review
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