Fix Audio With Sound That Plays Only In The Left Speaker: Audacity

If you record your sound with an external microphone into your camera or an audio recorder, you can end up with an audio clip where the sound is only recorded to the left channel and only plays back in the left speaker. How do you fix this with Audacity? We show you how very quickly!

And here's a previous episode where we show you how to do this in Audition:

Sanken COS-11D Lavalier Microphone

Antelope Orion Studio Audio Interface (Voiceover for this session was recorded with this)

Copyright 2017 by Curtis Judd

Quick Sound: Noise Reduction with Audacity

If the sound for your video is a little on the noisy side, you can clean it up using the free audio editing app Audacity. Audacity comes with a noise reduction plugin that makes it quick and easy to cut back the noise so that your audience can focus on your story or message. Here’s a very quick look at how to use the noise reduction effect in Audacity.

This is the start of a new series of tutorials I'd like to try called Quick Sound. The idea is to keep each piece short and focus on teaching a very focused element of audio recording or post processing. Does this sound interesting to you?

Louder Dialogue Audio with Audacity

https://youtu.be/L1FLali0xLk We’ve done a lot of tutorials on processing audio and sound with Adobe Audition but many have asked how to do the same things in Audacity, which is, of course, free. The trick with Audacity is that it lacks certain features that can be critical for getting consistent results, namely, loudness processing and metering tools. But when you’re first starting, you may not yet have the budget for an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. So if I were in that situation, here is how I would use Audacity to sort of accomplish the same thing (though not as consistently). Make your dialogue audio louder (without being too loud).

You can download and use Audacity for free - no strings attached, its open-source.