Category Archives: Audacity

Tips for troubleshooting audio in the Soundbooth

Can’t get your audio lines all lined up in the Soundbooth?  Here’s a couple of points to check on to make sure you get proper sound. You can use the m-box, and associated Shure microphone for any application (Audacity, Protools, even iMovie), but you have to make sure the hardware and software are all set [...]

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Make a Mashup in Audacity

Written by MPS Consultant JP Cafaro – for more help with this topic, visit JP at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. Mash-ups are a new popular form of music where you take two songs and mix them together to create something new.  There’s no magic tool to automatically make you a [...]

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Removing vocals from a song with Audacity

This tutorial will teach you how to remove the vocals from a song using the open source audio editor Audacity (available for PC, Mac and Linux). Start by opening up a song file. For this tutorial, we are using Dirty Little Secret by All-American Rejects. Next, click “Split Stereo Track” in the left panel to [...]

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