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# Tutorial - Your First Recording

From Audacity Development Manual

This set of tutorials provide a guide to making your first microphone, guitar or keyboard recording with Audacity.

## The Tutorials

This tutorial has been broken into several sub-tutorials for ease of reading as there is a lot of material to read and digest. The following topics are covered and should be followed in the order presented here:

1. Tutorial - Connecting Up
   1. Connecting a Microphone
   2. Connecting an Instrument
   3. Connecting a Mixer
2. Tutorial - Selecting Your Recording Device
3. Tutorial - Making a Test Recording
4. Tutorial - Recording and Editing

## Where to go from here

Take some time to play with Audacity. Record and edit more material. Practice editing. Try out different effects.

### Tutorials

- Tutorial - Mixing a Narration With Background Music
- Tutorial - Copying tapes, LPs or minidiscs to CD
- Tutorial - Editing an Existing Audio File
- Tutorial - Audacity Settings for Recording

### For more information

- Getting sound into Audacity: Troubleshooting Recordings
- Improving Recording Quality: Audacity Wiki - Improving Recording Quality
- Editing a track: Edit Menu and Zooming
- Effects: Effect Menu
- Saving: Audacity Projects
- Exporting: File > Export > Export Audio...
- If you need help and cannot find it in the manual or the wiki, try visiting the Audacity Forum.

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