Audacity

In this new post we bring you the best pdf tutorials on Audacity in English , completely free and ready to download.

Audacity is one of the best audio editing programs aimed at a wide audience: from beginners to editing experts.

Regarding its technical characteristics, Audacity is cross-platform, that is, there are versions available for the main operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X, and all GNU / Linux distributions.

To install it on your computer, you just have to download it for free from its official website and you don't need to have a computer with great features because it is light, takes up little space and does not consume many resources.

What can you do with Audacity? Practically anything that would be expected from a program of this type, for example you can import and work with audio tracks in
.wav, .mp3, .ogg and other formats , to which you can add effects, cut sections, merge several audios, convert them to digital sound, make the recording go slower or faster. Even with Audacity you can make live recordings and upload them to the web.

Do you want to make a podcast and upload it to the Internet? Do you have a blog and seek to complement its content with audio posts? Are you a teacher and do you want your students to understand better? Are you passionate about radio? Do you want to record a cover of your favorite song? You can do all this and much more thanks to this powerful software and the Audacity tutorials that we will leave later.

But there is still much more, and it is that a large number of plugins and add-ons have been developed that allow you to extend the functions of Audacity to create and edit sound in a truly professional way and take full advantage of its capabilities.

Without a doubt, we are nothing more and nothing less before one of the best free software of all time, considered a true alternative to proprietary programs. Additionally, the fact that Audacity's code is open allows for constant improvement by the community.

We can say that the learning curve of Audacity is intermediate, but unlike other programs of its type, for example Adobe Audition, this one is easier to understand and with brief explanations the user will be ready to take their first steps in editing audio, but with a little more dedication, in no time large projects will be created.

To make audio editing even easier, we compiled the best pdf tutorials on Audacity in English, updated, free and with different approaches so that you can learn and practice.

We hope you enjoy them and they are useful to you 🙂

 Audacity Program for editing multitrack digital audio

This interesting tutorial is part of the Collection of free applications for educational contexts developed by the Ministry of Education of the Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and although it is content created for educational purposes, it is one of the best tutorials on Audacity that you'll find.

Why do we recommend this tutorial? For various reasons, in principle because it very clearly details the software interface and its main functions , it also contains a series of practical activities, which, although they are aimed at school students, are truly useful for anyone using Audacity for the first time , since they serve to put into practice what is being learned, obviously you will have to adjust these activities to your context.

A while ago we said that Audacity can be very useful in education and this tutorial demonstrates it, so if you are a teacher you can extract a few ideas to take them to your classes.

So don't miss out on this invaluable pdf tutorial if you've never used Audacity or if you want to help someone learn how to use it in an entertaining way.

Author         Ministry of Education, Buenos Aires

License   CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Size             48 pg / 174 kb

Level           Beginner

          

 Audacity tutorial

This pdf tutorial will help you download, install, and configure Audacity on Mac, Windows, and Linux, guiding you through the process.

This resource is divided into three parts: the first and second correspond to what we have just explained to you, and the last includes a practical example of how to use the software.

The intention of this short Audacity tutorial is that you are able to do your own installation of the program and be ready to face it for the first time.

Author         Unknown

License   CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Size             25 pg / 128 kb

Level           Beginner

          

 Sound editing with Audacity

Learn with this tutorial the basic operation of Audacity, in an easy and concrete way.

With this pdf you will learn what the program menus are for and its main options , including those for working with effects, it also includes a practical exercise divided into four parts to apply the most important.

If you like to learn in a practical way and step by step , download this tutorial that you will love.

Author         Jesusda

License   CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Size             20 pg / 163 kb

Level           Beginner

          

 Audacity mega tutorial in English

Franck Scipion, creator of one of the most famous marketing, lifestyle and blogging blogs in our language, leaves us this outstanding Audacity tutorial in English.

On its website you will find the original article that we have converted to pdf so that you can consult it whenever you want and especially in those moments when you do not have an Internet connection.

This tutorial has a different approach and it is aimed at those who have a blog and want to record a podcast to diversify the way of delivering their content to the audience, although if you do not belong to this group, you will also like this resource.

We like it not only because of its content well explained, in a detailed and clear way, but also because of the language it uses, a close and direct language that resembles a conversation between friends.

Here you will learn, in addition to the installation and first steps, how to work with some effects and even how to add background music to your voice recordings to give it a personal and distinctive touch. 

Without a doubt, an unmissable tutorial for both beginners and those who have used this program before.

Author         Franck Scipion

License   CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Size             28 pg / 105 kb

Level           Beginner / Intermediate

          

 Advanced Audacity

Once you know the fundamentals of sound editing with Audacity, it's time to start doing it like a pro and something that will help you is this tutorial prepared by KZ Gunea. 

Through its pages you will get to know the advanced Audacity menus and controls while you are applying them in 3 practices that include the functions of Fade in & Out, Envelope and Silence, noise reduction, normalization and multitrack editing of a song. 

If you already use Audacity and want to know some of its advanced functions, don't forget to download this tutorial.

Author         KZ Gunea

License   CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Size             27 pg / 150 kb

Level           Advanced