Stanton T.55 USB manual Recording & saving tracks, Audacity Software Overview, for PC and MAC

AUDACITY SOFTWARE OVERVIEW (for PC and MAC)

Recording & saving tracks

10.When you are ready to record, click the Red record button on the computer.

11.When you have finished the recording, click the Yellow stop button. Click the Green play button to playback your finished recording.

You can now click File and choose Export As AIFF (Macintosh) or Wave (Windows) to save the recording. This will save the entire recording as one audio file.

12.If you want to record the entire side of an LP, or a continuous selection of songs, repeat steps 1-3 above. When you are finished, you will be able to see each song as a waveform, with silence in-betwen each song. If you stop the recording and then start again, the new recording will appear as new audio tracks below the previous recording.

If you want to separate the recorded audio into different tracks, drag the cursor over a song segment in the waveform window to high light it, and then from the File menu select Export Selection As AIFF (Macintosh) or Wave (Windows). If you want to save it as an MP3 file, then choose Export Selection As MP3. Give the file a name when prompted. Repeat for each song segment.

13.You can remove silences at the start or end of the recording by draging the cursor over the silent region and then choosing Delete or Cut from the Edit windows.

14.For a Macintosh, after you have recorded your track, burn them to a CD using the Mac OS X finder, or with other Macintosh CD creation programs.

For Windows, use Windows Explorer or another Windows CD creation program to burn a CD.

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