wav.įinally, what about using Audacity to record audio coming out of your computer? To do that, you need to change three settings: This is also what you’ll do if you want to chop audio into pieces to cut a song or clip into samples: open the file with Audacity and then cut it into pieces by highlighting the pieces you don’t want and cutting them, then saving the result as a. mp3 but if you want to use the audio as a sample you need to export it as. You have a bunch of options for export and if you’re exporting to play for your friends you’ll want it to be a. You just highlight it with your mouse as in the following screenshot and then hit backspace to delete it.Īnd once you’ve trimmed the beginning and end, you can export the file. Likely, you’ll need to cut a little bit at the beginning and end. One you have your audio, though, what do you do with it? You probably have something that looks like this: If you’re curious, this is me saying “these are some random words to generate a waveform for the screenshot” Now all you need to do to record audio is just hit the red record button and go! If not, though, hit the button that says Click to Start Monitoring and then try setting the input to different devices using the menu to the right of the microphone until you see one that’s clearly picking up audio, like in the screenshot below If you’re working on the built in microphone of a laptop there’s probably only one option and Audacity is already listening to the right input. The first thing to do is check to make sure that the mic is set to the correct device. I’m going to assume you’ve started Audacity and are looking at something like this
#AUDACITY RECORD COMPUTER AUDIO HOW TO#
The first thing we’ll talk about is how to record yourself through a microphone. Instead, we’ll focus on actually using it to do audio editing and record.
#AUDACITY RECORD COMPUTER AUDIO INSTALL#
You have recordings you want to cut up into samplesĪudacity is easy to install and setup from the project website linked above.You need to record yourself speaking or playing an acoustic instrument.You want to record just your audio for posting to Bandcamp or including as a soundtrack to other media.
But there’s a few reasons why you might want to use just a plain audio editor, like Audacity OBS is great for if you want to record video and audio, like for a live coding performance.