Time for me to start learning about it properly. But where do I start?
At the moment I am an "audio idiot". I don't want to be an "audio geek" but certainly want to do more than I have been doing.
Is there an "audio editing 101" that I might understand? Particularly one that uses Audacity to talk through the concepts?
The kind of thing I'm interested in is knowing how to set audio to be a particular volume (so that it matches other audio that I can't edit very well in another tool).
For example - I record a narrative of something in a simulation tool and I can do limited editing on that audio track. I now want to get some more audio recorded that will be played on the same speakers just before... and I want to get audio levels to match.
For another example, if I were editing a photo I would increase the size of the photo before I applied sharpening. I guess there may be a similar "good" order to doing things with an audio track. So if I have something I just recorded my immediate thought would be to cut the bits I didn't want, then apply any volume adjustment before reducing the noise and normalising. But that might be the wrong order and lead to serious degradation of the track. You might say, "No, don't do it that way" and tell me to remove noise, then normalise before increasing volume.
The difference might be significant but I wouldn't know without being told what order is best.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
