Tutorial - Your First Recording

This set of tutorials provide a guide to making your first microphone, guitar or keyboard recording with Audacity.

The Tutorials

This tutorial has been broken into several sub-tutorials for ease of reading as there is a lot of material to read and digest. The following topics are covered and should be followed in the order presented here:

1. Tutorial - Connecting Up
   1. Tutorial - Connecting a Microphone
   2. Tutorial - Connecting an Instrument
   3. Tutorial - Connecting a Mixer
2. Tutorial - Audacity Settings for Recording
3. Tutorial - Selecting Your Input
4. Tutorial - Making a Test Recording
5. Tutorial - Recording and Editing

Where to go from here

Take some time to play with Audacity. Record and edit more material. Practice editing. Try out different effects.

Tutorials

• Tutorial - Mixing a Narration With Background Music
• Tutorial - Copying tapes, LPs or minidiscs to CD
• Tutorial - Editing an Existing File

For more information

• Getting sound into Audacity: Audacity Wiki - Troubleshooting Recordings
• Improving Recording Quality: Audacity Wiki - Improving Recording Quality
• Editing a track: Edit Menu, Zooming
• Effects: Effect Menu
• Saving: Audacity Projects
• Exporting: File Menu > Export...
• If you need help and can't find it in the manual or the wiki, try visiting the Audacity Forum.