How to Record and Edit a Podcast in Audacity (Complete Tutorial)

I can’t believe you had the audacity to post a video like this. Wonderful … as always.

I’ve used Audacity for audio files and like it a lot. Thanks for including the envelope tool explanation – very helpful!

As usual, it is clear and helpful..
The background music adjustment is very nice…just rising and fading out feature adds the audio look like more of high standards..
I think editing part is very important after recording the content…have to be careful when cutting and pasting parts of audio…I wonder Pat did any mistakes like this and posted without noticing in his total 1332 episodes posted till date…(AskPat 1002…SPI 305…and 1DBB 25)
Am I correct Pat ?

My 10 year old son is going to be delighted when he finds his old man figured out how to add intro and outro music to his wresting podcast we just started, who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? Thanks Pat!

Can’t thank you enough, I’ve watched this several times and finally got a little recording down! You are amazing! If you can teach this ol girl from the technically challenged generation, you deserve amazing!!

wow! thank you, you’ve​ made something that looks sooooo complicated seem sooooo simple, made my first podcast jingle yesterday and its gone down really well, thank you.

Ok I am inspired…… now I just need to get off my arse and get it done !!!
Thank you so much for this video as has been commented below you have taken something which seems complicated and simplified it for us with a real world example just to get us all going….again many thanks

Thank you! Very informative. New to audacity and to podcasting. This was a great help.

good tutorial bruh tnx this means a lot to me,next bruh can you edit how to sing record with minus-one in good quality like a studio.

How far does specific headphones. I was considering maybe starting a podcast with my friend and I have a gaming Logitech g430 Headset and am wondering if it matter what headphones you have

What’s the best audio editing software for taking an MP3 audio file that’s four minutes long and making it faster thus say three minutes long?

Tip for using Levelator: If you have Intro/Outro music, first edit and export only the vocal track without the Intro/Outro and put it through the Levelator. Then add the Intro/Outro music to the vocal track from the Levelator and export in your desired format. If you export with the Intro/Outro music and then put it through the Levelator it might distort the sound of the music. Hope this helps.

Pat, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this tutorial. It was very practical and fast forwarded my learning on Audacity. I was over here dreading learning a new software and so have been avoiding it! Thanks to you, I can level up my podcast with little effort!

“QUESTION” I have my music tracks on 1 & 2. I’m recording lead vocal on Track 3. The music from tracks 1 & 2 goes to track 3 during recording. How do I fix that?

Thanks so much for this! We are new to recording although I used to be sound tech for a Vineyard church years ago. My husband will be recording for a radio show and your pointers are invaluable! Now to find a royalty free music clip and we’ll be all set.

Thank you so much for doing this video. I have used the tools to start editing my first podcast episode and it probably would have taken twice as long to figure this stuff out myself. You have a new subscriber 🙂

Thanks a bunch for making this tutorial! It was a key part of the learning that went into my first podcast.