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Using Audacity
Home	What is Audacity? | The Interface | Setting your Preferences
Recording and Importing Audio	Using a microphone | Using existing audio
Editing tracks	Basic Editing | Zooming | Fading in and out
Working with tracks	Moving tracks | Track control panel options | Sorting tracks | Viewing your project
Saving and exporting	Saving | Exporting | Editing ID3 tags

The basic element of an Audacity project is the track. A track is any audio recording or sound clip that you either record using a microphone into Audacity itself, or import into the program from an already existing file on your computer.

With Audacity open and a microphone plugged in and ready to go, click on the red Record button on the Playback Control toolbar.

This will automatically open a new track in the Track window and commence recording. You should, if all is going well, see some red lines appear in the Meter toolbar - - indicating that recorded input is being received as well as some waveform appearing in the new track.

Web Resources

See: Audacity: Recording with the Microphone (http://blip.tv/file/365273/ Blip.tv video 0:52).