From the course: Learning Audacity
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Use common effects - Audacity Tutorial
From the course: Learning Audacity
Use common effects
- [Instructor] If you look under the Effects menu, you'll see that Audacity has no shortage of effects and filters you can apply to your projects. I'm not going to go into every single one here, but in this movie I would like to show you a few of the effects that I think you'll find to be the most useful most frequently. I've opened up the file called "music_bed_nofade." Now in the previous movie we looked at the envelope tool which lets you automate the volume of tracks. And I mentioned that you can't use the envelope tool to create complete fade ins or fade outs because it can't take the audio level all the way down to nothing. If you want to create a fade you'll need to use the fade effects. Let's listen to the end of this track. (energetic rock music) So that just kind of ends abruptly. It'll sound much better with a fade out. Now, as with just about all edits, before I can apply an effect I need to first select the…
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