Audacity First set-up After downloading audacity from this url audacity.sourceforge.net. Follow these steps: 1. Connect your microphone. 2. Launch Audacity. 3. Click the File menu and choose Preferences. In the Recording section, select your microphone. 4. Also in Preferences, click the File Formats tab. Change When importing uncompressed audio files into Audacity to Make a copy of the file before editing (safer). This will prevent you from losing sections of your audio if the original file is moved or deleted. 5. Click the Record button.
6. Speak into the microphone. Notice the waveforms appear as you speak. 7. Click the Stop button. 8. Click the Play button to listen to the recording. Recording with Audacity Audacity is multi-track recording software. That means you can record or import various sections of audio and have them overlap or play at the same time. You can move tracks around to have them start and stop at specific times. Audacity has six tools, though most podcasts use only the Selection and Timeshift tools.