The Audacity Channel

I have two important announcements to share in this final episode of the Audacity Channel podcast. First, I've made the decision to retire this podcast in favor of going all in on my Audacity Training YouTube Channel. This podcast will be going away soon and this is the final episode. 

Second, I'm also shutting down the Audacity Bootcamp online school for the time being. If you've enrolled in either or both of my courses there, Audacity Step-by-Step: Beginner to Advanced, or ACX Audiobook Production Using Audacity, this decision affects you. Last week I sent an email to the students in both courses explaining the action that needs to be taken but some have opted out of receiving emails from me, so you may not be aware of my decision. For those students enrolled in either or both of the above courses, the videos in those courses are now available for you to download. This only applies to the students enrolled in those two courses. Simply log in as usual and you'll see a download link next to each individual lesson video. It's important that you do so by the end of the day this Tuesday, June 10th. Here's a link to the Audacity Bootcamp online school for your login convenience, along with the link to my Audacity Training YouTube Channel:

Audacity Bootcamp: https://www.audacitybootcamp.com/

Audacity Training on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AudacityTraining 

Other Places You'll Find Me:

1. The Audacity Bootcamp online school for podcasters and ACX audiobook narrators. The school consists of the following online courses:
   • Audacity Step-by-Step: Beginner to Advanced
   • ACX Audiobook Production Using Audacity
   • Audacity Version Updates
2. The Learn Audacity YouTube Channel
3. The Learn Audacity Homepage
4. The Audacity Channel on YouTube
5. Facebook

• Contact Me

I begin this episode with a quick health update and then we turn our attention to four key ingredients for recording exceptional initial audio. Taking the time to get the best audio we can initially can save hours in post-production. Here's a look at the four ingredients for a great recording:

• Room Treatments
• Microphone Placement
• Selecting the Right Microphone Type
• Good Microphone Technique

Links I talk about in this episode to David Hooper's free podcast courses on Udemy. Check these out when you get time!

• Big Podcast - Podcasting Masterclass https://www.udemy.com/course/big-podcast-podcasting-masterclass/
• Big Podcast - Grow Your Podcast and Make Money Podcasting https://www.udemy.com/course/bigpodcast/

Other Places You'll Find Me:

1. The Audacity Bootcamp online school for podcasters and ACX audiobook narrators. The school consists of the following online courses:
   • Audacity Step-by-Step: Beginner to Advanced
   • ACX Audiobook Production Using Audacity
   • Audacity Version Updates
2. The Learn Audacity YouTube Channel
3. The Learn Audacity Homepage
4. The Audacity Channel on YouTube
5. Facebook

• Contact Me

Audacity version 3.6.2 is out and it includes the Legacy Compressor and the Legacy Limiter that were part of Audacity prior to version 3.6. In this episode I show you how to get to these legacy effects and the right way to add them to a macro.

Other Places You'll Find Me:

1. The Audacity Bootcamp online school for podcasters and ACX audiobook narrators. The school consists of the following online courses:
   • Audacity Step-by-Step: Beginner to Advanced
   • ACX Audiobook Production Using Audacity
   • Audacity Version Updates
2. The Learn Audacity YouTube Channel
3. The Learn Audacity Homepage
4. The Audacity Channel on YouTube
5. Facebook

• Contact Me

If you're running a macro that was built for earlier versions of Audacity prior to 3.6.0, and part of that macro includes the Limiter and/or Compressor, it's probably going to fail when invoked. The reason is that the new versions of these plugins have been rewritten for realtime use and the setting options have changed. In this episode I suggest 3 options as a workaround.

Here's the link I mentioned to hotfix issues that were addressed in version 3.6.1.

https://support.audacityteam.org/additional-resources/changelog/audacity-3.6.1

Other Places You'll Find Me:

1. The Audacity Bootcamp online school for podcasters and ACX audiobook narrators. The school consists of the following online courses:
   • Audacity Step-by-Step: Beginner to Advanced
   • ACX Audiobook Production Using Audacity
   • Audacity Version Updates
2. The Learn Audacity YouTube Channel
3. The Learn Audacity Homepage
4. The Audacity Channel on YouTube
5. Facebook

• Contact Me

Welcome  to episode 30 of The Audacity Channel Podcast. Yes, this podcast is no longer in the seasons format but I've changed it to a serial format. Let's talk about version 3.6.0 of Audacity that came out today. After we do, I'll be giving you a short cancer update. Was diagnosed with cancer in April and I wanted to talk about it in case you hadn't heard. Plus, it explains my absence. 

I'm providing chapter divisions in case you want to skip to a particular chapter that interests you.

Other Places You'll Find Me:

1. The Audacity Bootcamp online school for podcasters and ACX audiobook narrators. The school consists of the following online courses:
   • Audacity Step-by-Step: Beginner to Advanced
   • ACX Audiobook Production Using Audacity
   • Audacity Version Updates
2. The Learn Audacity YouTube Channel
3. The Learn Audacity Homepage
4. The Audacity Channel on YouTube
5. Facebook

• Contact Me

This episode of The Audacity Channel podcast is for MAC users of Audacity and it concerns a compatibility issue that's in Audacity when running Mac OS 14.2.1, Sonoma. The record and playback toolbars have a problem, so let's talk about it.

Other Places You'll Find Me:

1. The Audacity Bootcamp online school for podcasters and ACX audiobook narrators. The school consists of the following online courses:
   • Audacity Step-by-Step: Beginner to Advanced
   • ACX Audiobook Production Using Audacity
   • Audacity Version Updates
2. The Learn Audacity YouTube Channel
3. The Learn Audacity Homepage
4. The Audacity Channel on YouTube
5. Facebook

• Contact Me

In this episode of The Audacity Channel podcast, I share with you my Audacity wishlist for 2024. To simplify my wishlist, I've divided it into 2 major sections: Tracks and Plugins. We look first at tracks and then we turn our attention to plugins. If your podcast app has this feature, see the timestamps for specific topics. In the event your podcast app doesn't support timestamps, here they are for your reference:

00:00 Introduction
00:55 Move the Meter Toolbars into the Track Control Panel and Make Vertical
02:34 Arm Individual Tracks to Record
03:10 Assign Individual Audio Interface Inputs to a Track for Multi-Track Recording
04:37 Give Us a Master Track With The Ability to Add Effects
05:49 Save FX as FX Chains For Quick Reuse
06:35 Save a Track as a Track Template
07:49 Save a Project as a Project Template
08:36 Make more of the destructive built-in effects real-time and non-destructive
09:40 Make Loudness Normalization a real-time effect
10:26 Make the Noise Reduction plugin a real-time effect
11:10 Make the ACX Check plugin part of the Audacity installation package
12:33 Make the FilterCurve EQ a real-time plugin and add the loaded preset to the interface window.
13:28 Make the Compressor and Noise Gate real-time effects
13:45 Summary
14:21 The Audacity Bootcamp 30% off sale is going on now thru January 1, 2024. Enter coupon code HOLIDAY30 at checkout.

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Thanks for joining me on this episode of The Audacity Channel podcast. If you're looking for quality Audacity training, be sure to check out my Audacity courses at https://www.audacitybootcamp.com/ and enter the coupon code HOLIDAY30 to save an additional 30% off of the already low price. I hope to see you there!

Other Places You'll Find Me:

1. The Audacity Bootcamp online school for podcasters and ACX audiobook narrators. The school consists of the following online courses:
   • Audacity Step-by-Step: Beginner to Advanced
   • ACX Audiobook Production Using Audacity
   • Audacity Version Updates
2. The Learn Audacity YouTube Channel
3. The Learn Audacity Homepage
4. The Audacity Channel on YouTube
5. Facebook

• Contact Me

Audacity version 3.4.0 is out but there's a bug you need to know about, along with a temporary fix if this bug is bugging you! I'm also a little disappointed with this update because even though it's a major update, there isn't any real change or improvements for us spoken word content creators. There are some updates and improvements for those in the music world but little if anything it seems, for those of us who don't do music creation. 

Audacity's overview video of version 3.4 for musicians:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgdYuSHdkso&t=0s

Other Places You'll Find Me:

1. The Audacity Bootcamp online school for podcasters and ACX audiobook narrators. The school consists of the following online courses:
   • Audacity Step-by-Step: Beginner to Advanced
   • ACX Audiobook Production Using Audacity
   • Audacity Version Updates
2. The Learn Audacity YouTube Channel
3. The Learn Audacity Homepage
4. The Audacity Channel on YouTube
5. Facebook

• Contact Me

I've been presented with a couple of business opportunities that I'm going to take advantage of. That means that I'm going to have to channel my audio and video resources and skills elsewhere for a time. To clear off my plate a little, some things have to be rearranged. So I'm putting The Audacity Channel podcast on hiatus for the time being. It will still be here - I'm not taking it down - and I may drop a new episode from time-to-time. We'll see what the future holds.

Thanks to everyone who follows this podcast. I appreciate you all.

Other Places You'll Find Me:

1. The Audacity Bootcamp online school for podcasters and ACX audiobook narrators. The school consists of the following online courses:
   • Audacity Step-by-Step: Beginner to Advanced
   • ACX Audiobook Production Using Audacity
   • Audacity Version Updates
2. The Learn Audacity YouTube Channel
3. The Learn Audacity Homepage
4. The Audacity Channel on YouTube
5. Facebook

• Contact Me

Welcome to season 3 of the Audacity Channel podcast. I'm building the theme of season 3 around Audacity how-tos. In this first episode I take a look at how to fix a loud noise floor using the built-in effects in Audacity. I'm assuming a couple of things here, namely that the noise floor we're trying to fix doesn't have any weird artifacts in it like barking dogs or other background noises that don't belong. That's a problem for a different episode. 

• Link to ACX Check Plugin if Needed: https://support.audacityteam.org/troubleshooting/missing-features#audacity-wiki
• Link to my video demonstrating what I talk about in this episode: https://youtu.be/akizoySBus4

Other Places You'll Find Me:

1. The Audacity Bootcamp online school for podcasters and ACX audiobook narrators. The school consists of the following online courses:
   • Audacity Step-by-Step: Beginner to Advanced
   • ACX Audiobook Production Using Audacity
   • Audacity Version Updates
2. The Learn Audacity YouTube Channel
3. The Learn Audacity Homepage
4. The Audacity Channel on YouTube
5. Facebook

• Contact Me