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Audacity Grew Up

For more than 25 years...

Audacity has been the free program you download when you need to:

Record something.

Cut something.

Clean something up.

Export it.

Simple.

But Audacity 4 is different.

New int...

It Sounded Perfect in Your Studio

You finish the mix at midnight.

Good headphones.

Monitors you trust.

A room you know.

It sounds finished.

The next morning...

Someone plays it on a phone speaker in the kitchen.

The kettle is going.

People are talking.

And suddenly...

The song falls apart.

It's easy ...

Start Before You Press Record

Great vocal recordings don't begin with the microphone.

They begin with:

A great song.

And...

A great singer.

Get those two things right...

And everything else gets easier.

A $5,000 microphone can't fix a weak performance.

But a great performance through a s...

Your Studio Should Make You Want to Create

A new piece of gear arrives.

Then another.

Then another.

Soon your desk has:

Three microphones.

Two MIDI controllers.

Seven plugins you haven't opened.

Cables everywhere.

And somehow...

You're making less music.

A home studio should give you possibilities.

B...

We Just Want to Write Songs

Singer-songwriter:

I don't care about EQ.

I don't care about compression.

I don't want to become an audio engineer.

I just want to write songs.

Fair.

You started with:

Lyrics.

Chords.

Melody.

Emotion.

Then suddenly someone...