Recording Albums with Audacity
1. Saving a project
Audacity writes all the changed and recorded audio to a directory called
Projectname_data, which is located right where you saved the project file itself.
Thus, select Save Project as from your Audacity File tab and choose a location and filename
for your project.
Please note that when you startup Audacity fresh, only the "Save As..." menu option is
available.
2. How to record
Set your USB turntable up to play the song or album you want to record.
Click on the red Record
button
Lower tone arm on USB turntable onto album and track you want to record.
Click on the blue Pause
button
Click on the yellow Stop button.
That's it. You can now play around with your recording and explore the editing capabilities of
Audacity. Remember that you can use the Undo function almost without limits while the project
to be to begin recording.
to pause the recording. Press it again to continue.
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