- The Book of Audacity
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Audacity from Start to Finish
- Audacity Quick-Start
- Audacity in Detail
- Managing Audacity Projects
- Selecting Tracks and Segments of Tracks
- Track Panel
- Cutting Out Unwanted Chunks
- Fade In and Out
- Making Quiet Recordings Louder
- Timer Record and Sound Activated Recording
- Mixer Board
- Track Metadata
- Final Mixdown
- Audio File Formats and Quality Settings
- Now What?
- 2. Building a Good Digital Sound Studio on the Cheap
- Getting Sound In and Out of the Computer
- Multichannel Recording, PCI, USB, FireWire
- USB or FireWire?
- Microphones
- Microphone Preamp
- Speakers and Headphones
- Your Computer Must Have Muscle and Vast Drawers
- Operating Systems
- Portable Recording
- The Secret of Recording Your Own Great Audio
- Visit Appendix A
- 3. Transferring Vinyl LPs (and Other Legacy Media) to CD
- Preparing Vinyl LPs for Copying
- Eight Steps to Converting Records to CDs
- Audacity Settings
- Recording
- Fixing Defects
- Customizing Dynamic Range Compression
- Normalization
- Dividing a Long Track into Individual Songs
- Exporting to CD-Ready Files, One Long Audacity Track
- Exporting to CD-Ready Files, Multiple Audacity Tracks
- Writing Songs to a CD
- Copying Vintage 78s
- Connecting Legacy Devices to Your Computer
- Which Is Better: Vinyl, Tape, or CDs?
- 4. Creating and Editing Live Tracks for CD
- Making Good Live Recordings
- Audacity Settings for Recording
- Editing Live Recordings
- Editing and Downmixing Multitrack Recordings
- Special CD Settings in Audacity
- Trimming
- Splitting Stereo Tracks for Surgical Repairs
- Fixing Clipping and Too-Loud Passages
- Noise Removal
- Compressing Dynamic Range
- Cutting a Single Long Track into Individual Song Tracks
- Creating Graceful Breaks Between Songs
- Normalization
- Optional Track Metadata
- Final Export
- Writing Your Songs to CD
- Combining Songs from Different Recording Sessions, Fix-its, and Special Effects
- 5. Authoring a Compilation CD
- 6. Authoring Super High-Fidelity Audio DVDs
- 7. Creating Podcasts
- 8. Becoming an Online Star
- 9. Multitrack Recording
- 10. Making Your Own Ringtones
- 11. Audacity Plug-ins for Special Effects
- Repeat Last Effect
- Noise Removal
- Normalization
- Remove Clicks and Scratches
- Truncate Silence
- Change Tempo
- Change Pitch
- Change Speed
- Compress Dynamic Range
- Equalization
- Fix Timing and Latency Errors
- Analyze Menu
- 13. Configuring Linux for Best Audio Quality
- Using Distributions with Real-Time Kernels
- Building a Real-Time Kernel
- Latency Is Not That Scary
- Sorting Out Linux Audio
- Using ALSA
- Hardware Testing with alsa-utils
- Querying Your Sound Card
- Using JACK with Audacity
- Turning PulseAudio and Phonon Off
- Linux System Tweaks
- The Tangled History of Linux Audio
- Sound Cards
- 14. Configuring Windows for Best Audio Quality
- 15. Customizing Audacity
- A. Audio Hardware
- B. Glossary
- The Myth of Burn-In
- The Myth of Tube Superiority
- The Myth of Uber Cables
- The Myth of Analog Superiority
- The Myth That You Don’t Need Tone Controls
- The Myth That Someone Else Knows Better Than You
- D. References and Resources
- E. Updates
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
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