Book description
The Book of Audacity shows you how to complete fun and useful projects with Audacity, the cross-platform, open source audio editor and recorder. You'll learn how to digitize your vinyl record collections, create podcasts, record live performances, create super-high fidelity recordings, mix and master multi-track recordings, and create ringtones, special effects, and more. You'll also learn how to package your work for online distribution, whether that means distributing a podcast on iTunes or selling an album on CD Baby.
Table of contents
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The Book of Audacity
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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1. Audacity from Start to Finish
- Audacity Quick-Start
- Audacity in Detail
- Managing Audacity Projects
- Selecting Tracks and Segments of Tracks
- Track Panel
- Cutting Out Unwanted Chunks
- Fade In and Out
- Making Quiet Recordings Louder
- Timer Record and Sound Activated Recording
- Mixer Board
- Track Metadata
- Final Mixdown
- Audio File Formats and Quality Settings
- Now What?
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2. Building a Good Digital Sound Studio on the Cheap
- Getting Sound In and Out of the Computer
- Multichannel Recording, PCI, USB, FireWire
- USB or FireWire?
- Microphones
- Microphone Preamp
- Speakers and Headphones
- Your Computer Must Have Muscle and Vast Drawers
- Operating Systems
- Portable Recording
- The Secret of Recording Your Own Great Audio
- Visit Appendix A
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3. Transferring Vinyl LPs (and Other Legacy Media) to CD
- Preparing Vinyl LPs for Copying
- Eight Steps to Converting Records to CDs
- Audacity Settings
- Recording
- Fixing Defects
- Customizing Dynamic Range Compression
- Normalization
- Dividing a Long Track into Individual Songs
- Exporting to CD-Ready Files, One Long Audacity Track
- Exporting to CD-Ready Files, Multiple Audacity Tracks
- Writing Songs to a CD
- Copying Vintage 78s
- Connecting Legacy Devices to Your Computer
- Which Is Better: Vinyl, Tape, or CDs?
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4. Creating and Editing Live Tracks for CD
- Making Good Live Recordings
- Audacity Settings for Recording
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Editing Live Recordings
- Editing and Downmixing Multitrack Recordings
- Special CD Settings in Audacity
- Trimming
- Splitting Stereo Tracks for Surgical Repairs
- Fixing Clipping and Too-Loud Passages
- Noise Removal
- Compressing Dynamic Range
- Cutting a Single Long Track into Individual Song Tracks
- Creating Graceful Breaks Between Songs
- Normalization
- Optional Track Metadata
- Final Export
- Writing Your Songs to CD
- Combining Songs from Different Recording Sessions, Fix-its, and Special Effects
- 5. Authoring a Compilation CD
- 6. Authoring Super High-Fidelity Audio DVDs
- 7. Creating Podcasts
- 8. Becoming an Online Star
- 9. Multitrack Recording
- 10. Making Your Own Ringtones
- 11. Audacity Plug-ins for Special Effects
- 12. Fix-its and Cleanups
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13. Configuring Linux for Best Audio Quality
- Using Distributions with Real-Time Kernels
- Building a Real-Time Kernel
- Latency Is Not That Scary
- Sorting Out Linux Audio
- Using ALSA
- Hardware Testing with alsa-utils
- Querying Your Sound Card
- Using JACK with Audacity
- Turning PulseAudio and Phonon Off
- Linux System Tweaks
- The Tangled History of Linux Audio
- Sound Cards
- 14. Configuring Windows for Best Audio Quality
- 15. Customizing Audacity
- A. Audio Hardware
- B. Glossary
- C. Seven Myths of Digital Audio
- D. References and Resources
- E. Updates
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
Product information
- Title: The Book of Audacity
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2011
- Publisher(s): No Starch Press
- ISBN: 9781593272708
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