Audacity is an incredibly powerful audio editor, and comes with a lot of tools built-in to make your audio sound even nicer.

That’s right – your audio isn’t done as soon as you’ve finished recording it. There are things you can do after you finish recording to improve the quality and make your vocals or dialogue sound even better.

These things only take a few moments to do, and can make a dramatic improvement in the quality of your recording.

So, let’s look at a few things you can do to improve your Audacity audio quality, and make your recording sound even better.

Launching in 2000, the Audacity audio editor has been around for a very long time.

Used by millions of people around the world, it remains the most popular free audio editing software to this day, from hobbyists producing their first pieces of audio to professionals who simply don’t need anything else.

Yet concerns about the safety of Audacity have recently come into question, prompting people to ask – is Audacity safe? Am I at risk by installing it on your computer?

While recent decisions by the Audacity team have made this a reasonable concern, I’d like to address it more deeply within this article

Censoring audio in Audacity is very simple, and only requires a few moments to do properly.

Whether you’re hoping to avoid marking your podcast episode as ‘explicit’ or you need a radio-friendly version of your song, you’ll want to censor your audio as quickly and as cleanly as possible.

Fortunately, there are a couple of ways to do this in Audacity.

Out of all the editing you’ll be doing in Audacity, perhaps the most common thing you’ll be doing is trimming and cutting audio.

This is especially true if you’re using Audacity for a podcast, or other forms of content creation. The fact of the matter is, nobody records perfectly every time, and cutting out undesirable bits is critical for high quality recordings.

Best of all, if you do it right, nobody will ever be able to tell that it wasn’t recorded perfectly the first time! Despite recording years of scripts, there may still be 10 or more cuts in each podcast episode I release, and listeners wouldn’t ever have an idea.

Once you’ve finished editing your Audacity project, it’s time to export the final file.

It’s important to understand that saving your Audacity project on its own, does not create a file that you can distribute and share with others.

In order to create a file that you can share and upload to your podcast host, Spotify, or other audio distribution platforms, you’ll have to do something called exporting.

Fortunately, this is all quite simple. Let’s look over the exporting process in Audacity.