Adding Realtime Effects in Audacity

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Let's take a few minutes to talk about using realtime effects in Audacity. The ability to add realtime, non-destructive effects takes Audacity to an entirely new level as a mainstream digital audio workstation. Plus, it's free! My purpose in this video isn't to recommend specific plugins (there are so many out there, making that a near impossible task). My purpose is to talk about how to add realtime effects and then describe my order of realtime effects when editing a podcast. I don't mention compression as one of my effects because I use a hardware compressor (my DBX 286S) so my audio is compressed before it ever gets recorded.
Here's a look at where we've been and where we're going in this season of The Audacity Channel podcast:

• Episode 1: Recording Room Preparation
• Episode 2: Microphone Types
• Episode 3: Microphone Placement
• Episode 4: Microphone Technique
• Episode 5: My Recording Hardware Chain
• Episode 6: Audio Quality: Hitting the Mark with Sample Rate, Bit Depth, and Bit Rate
• Episode 7: Editing Multi-Track Projects in Audacity
• Episode 8: Adding Realtime Effects in Audacity (This Episode)
• Episode 9: How To Set The Correct LUFS Level
• Episode 10: Exporting Our Audacity Project as an MP3

Links I talk about in this episode:

• Audacity De-Clicker: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/updated-de-clicker-and-new-de-esser-for-speech/34283
• VIDEO: Audacity De-Clicker vs. The iZotope Mouth De-Clicker: https://youtu.be/EQHaWQRYViw

Other Places You'll Find Me:

1. The Audacity Bootcamp online school for podcasters and ACX audiobook narrators. The school consists of the following online courses:
   • Audacity Step-by-Step: Beginner to Advanced
   • ACX Audiobook Production Using Audacity
   • Audacity Version Updates
2. The Learn Audacity YouTube Channel
3. The Learn Audacity Homepage
4. The Audacity Channel on YouTube
5. Facebook

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1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Advantages of Realtime Effects (00:00:31)

3. Enabling Realtime Effects (00:01:15)

4. How to Open The Realtime Effects Panel (00:01:46)

5. Audacity 3.2.5 Realtime Effects Limitations (00:02:31)

6. Adding and Managing Realtime Effects on a Track (00:03:23)

7. My Editing Process (00:09:40)

8. My Order of Adding Realtime Effects (00:12:26)

9. Summary of My Process (00:16:50)

10. The Audacity Bootcamp (00:17:51)

11. Outro (00:18:21)