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Audacity - Intro to Sound Editing

Instructors
Jesse Turnbull, Sarah Jacoby, David Toccafondi
Vitale Digital Media Lab

Vitale Digital Media Lab
215-746-2661
wic1@pobox.upenn.edu
http://wic.library.upenn.edu/lab/

Lab Hours:
Monday - Thursday: 9am - 10pm
Friday: 9am - 9pm
Saturday: 12 noon - 9pm
Sunday: 12 noon - 9pm

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Course Objectives

This is an introduction to Audacity-a free, cross-platform audio editing program available online. In this class, we will go through the process of importing audio tracks into Audacity and introduce the anatomy of a sound wav. From there, we'll learn how to edit the wav, manage multiple audio tracks, record your own voice, and export your very own audio track. .

This training is assumes no former knowledge of audio editing or the physics of sound.

In this course you will learn:

• How to record sound
• How to edit sound wavs
  
• How to import audio tracks from an outside source
• About multi-layered audio tracks and mixing
  
• About labeling and managing recorded material
• About adding effects, de-noising audio recordings, and balancing stereo sound
• The difference between MP3s, AIFFs, OGG Vorbis files and how to export them
• More as time permits
  

Where can you use Audacity?

• Download the program for free at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/. Be sure to download the LAME encoder located there as well.
• Use it for free in the Vitale Digital Media Lab or in the Weigle Information Commons

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