Take a good look at the Effect menu, because that’s where we’re going to be spending all of our time when editing our voice over.

The File menu is where you go to save your projects and import and export audio files. If your microphone doesn’t have a physical gain dial, then you can modify it using the slider here in Audacity. If you read our previous piece, you already know that setting your microphone gain properly is an essential part of recording. These two sliders control the gain (microphone icon) and playback volume (speakers icon) respectively: You use the play and pause buttons to control the playback when you’re reviewing your audio tracks, just like you would do with the video preview in Flixier! The red button makes Audacity start recording, while the gray square stops it. These will look familiar to anyone who has ever used a music player before. Next up are the recording and playback controls: This way you’ll be able to record your voice and listen back to your audio during editing. Make sure your microphone shows up as a recording device and that your headphones/speakers (depending on what you use) are selected as the playback device. We’ve actually updated the entire recording component of Flixier to allow you to record your computer screen and webcam too, meaning that you can now use Flixier to record entire video tutorials or Let’s Play videos straight from your web browser! Those of you that have used Flixier before probably know that our online video editor can be used to record audio through your computer’s microphone. Since a good setup is going to make post-production a lot easier, we highly recommend that you follow the steps in the previous article first in order to get the best results. More specifically, we’re going to teach you how to use Audacity - a professional audio editing tool - in order to clean up your recordings and create professional sounding voice overs for your videos. This week’s article is all about post-production, meaning the things that you can do to enhance your audio after it’s already been recorded. That advice was meant to be put into use during the preparation phase, long before you press the record button. In last week’s blog post we gave you some tips to help you get higher quality vocal recordings.

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