Recording a Song in Audacity.

Audacity is a recording program whereas it’s very simple, and is free from the Internet. You can make a recording with several tracks in this program. Audacity can work quite effectively on the present Windows platform. Of course, the more powerful your computer or laptop is, the better the program perform, and the more ram you got, the more effects you use.

The simplicity of audacity lies in its simple platform, it’s got a great interface, with the usual file, edit, project, generate, effect, analyze, and help section. But the main window we are concerned, is the effect drop-down window which houses all the effects that will make your song sound better. Some of these effects are enough, to make your song, sound professional.

You might need a guitar, a recording microphone, and maybe a MIDI keyboard to help with your recording. A pre-amp can help in connecting your instruments to the computer. The preamp can bring your level of sound from your instrument or microphone to a more effective level of recording. But it doesn’t really matter if you have got a preamp because you can use the the preamp in the laptop or computer. But I must warn you it’s not as professional.

With the new version of audacity, version 1.2.6, to start recording straightaway, you just press the record button, and a track will appear and start recording at the same time. When you need to stop the recording you just press the stop button and it stops. We need to play back the recorded track, you just press the play button, which is green, and it plays back what you recorded in the track. We need to record a new track, press the red button which is the record, and it will play the last track you have recorded, and record your current track. So therefore, you might record the guitar first, and then on the next track, record the keyboards, may be a bass line. Then on the next track, which is track three, you might record the piano, and of course on track four, you can record your guide vocals. That’s it.

Once you finish recording the instruments, and vocals, you can remix the tracks and add effects. With the mixing of the tracks, make sure every instrument comes out nice and clear, including the vocals. Then at this point, you either save it as an MP3, to load to the Internet either on YouTube or your favorite MP3 site, or export it to a CD and take it to a mastering studio.

The audacity recording program, is not only good for recording songs, but it’s good for recording podcasts, editing songs, editing speech, editing music and improving your speech.I have personally use Audacity to edit some of my music to be inserted into my You Tube videos and it always does the job amicably.So especially in the internet marketing, its a very good piece of software to help with your audio side.