

If you learn well from video tutorials, there are literally hundreds on YouTube if you look around and they can be especially helpful as they demonstrate what messing with the EQ actually does to the sound.

Here's one intro to the particulars of EQ for music recording. Just as the lighting crew can add or filter out specific colors of light (from low-frequency red to high-frequency violet) to ultimately get the color and effect of light they want, you can do something similar with the different frequencies in your sound (from low-frequency bass to high-frequency treble) to get an end result you want. It can help someone new to all this to think of a stage lit by different-colored lights.

Equalization is boosting and/or cutting specific frequencies in your sound to get the result you want. You can find links to other useful Open Source audio and audio-visual applications, that you can download and use, in the Audacity Wiki.Equalizers (EQ for short) are found everywhere in the audio world and the equalizer EQ functions in Audacity are pretty much the same as any EQ in any software or hardware, so what you want to do is familiarize yourself with the basics of what EQ is and does.Ī recorded sound is made up of a range of frequencies.Other Open Source Audio and Audio-Visual Applications You may copy, distribute, modify and/or resell Audacity, under the terms of the GNU GPL.To build Audacity yourself, download the source code.Although there are a number of sellers of Audacity software on ebay, Amazon, Microsoft Store and Apple Store, none of these sellers are affiliated to Audacity, and none have contributed in any way to the Audacity project.Source code and user manuals for some old versions are available on FossHub, as well as AppImages since version 3.0.3. For Linux, the appropriate version of Audacity for your operating system is usually included in your distribution’s repository.

