9/28/2025
As an avid user of Audacity, I decided to return to the training to once again go over the official Vivero training and refresh myself on anything I may have forgotten since then. Going through the Level Up trainings and learning how to add effects, censor words, and compress my recordings was incredibly helpful–while I already knew how to compress my recordings, the other effects were greatly useful in furthering my skills. I would definitely say that these Level Up trainings are worthwhile additional skills for anyone regularly using the software. I do however, have an additional little step that I think may benefit users, though perhaps not experienced users. While most people will probably want to go through the noise reduction tutorial provided by Audacity and linked on the training page, there is also a fairly easier step to cut out large chunks of sound, clip audio together, and make a little more space in your recordings. It could potentially be helpful for anyone who wants to remove large sections, or is less worried about consistent background noise. This process is called Generating Silence, and here is how it is done!
- Use the Selection Tool within Audacity to highlight a section of audio or a specific spot
- Click Generate which should be available above the toolbar
- Click Silence in the drop down menu
- Enter your duration of silence
- Confirm your selection!
The highlighted part of your audio you selected will now be filled with silence, or if you just selected a specific moment, the duration you chose will be the amount of silence added. Again, this can be helpful when trying to add a little buffer time to the start or end of a recording, when clipping audio files together, or just taking out large chunks.