How to Use Audacity for Beginners

Learning how to use Audacity is easy when you can follow along with a knowledgeable teacher! Learn how to install it, set it up, and start using basic tools.

Now that you have Audacity set up and are familiar with the basic tools, learn how to use this free software for recording directly from a source.

This audio editing lesson covers how to generate noise in Audacity, whether it's a sound effect, a metronome click track, or absolute silence.

In this lesson, make your audio clips cleaner by learning how to remove noise, and tidy up the volume of a track by learning how to use compression in Audacity.

In this audio editing lesson, learn how to slow down and speed up audio and change the pitch by playing with speed, tempo, and pitch in Audacity.