In this Audacity tutorial we will be looking at Reverb. This is a very useful tool and it at the heart of music recording.

Reverb allows you to place your recording in a room of your choice. For example, perhaps you would like your vocal part to sound like it was recorded in a church, Revery lets you do this.

Reverb is an open-ended tool so we will just begin to look at its uses. That the tool and do some trial and error of your own to find out what works best for you.

This video tutorial is one in a series. You can see a full list of the available Audacity tutorials and activities at the end of this post.

Audacity Tutorial - How to use Reverb

Procedure:

The Reverb effect in Audacity lets us treat our recordings with ambient sounds. We can fine tune the settings to allow more or less reverberation, much the same as recording in various different rooms.

The settings found in the Audacity Reverb provides us with a wide selections of ways to fine tune our ambient sound settings. In this video tutorials I go over most of these settings and explain how they are used.

Learn Audacity Series

The following is a list of all the Audacity tutorials and activities found in this video series

TUTORIALS

1 How to Create a New Audacity Project

2 How to Open or Import Audio Files in Audacity

3 What are Audacity Tracks

4 Audacity Transport Controls

5 How to Save an Audacity Project
6 How to Record
7 How to Set Input Volume Levels
8 How to Export MP3 and WAV Files

9 How to Select and Delete Sound

ACTIVITY 1 - My First Recording

10 How to use Undo and History in Audacity

11 How to Use the Zoom Tools

12 How to Use the Time Shift Tool

13 How to Use the Change Pitch Effect

ACTIVITY 2 - Make Your Voice Sound Like a Chipmunk

14 How to Use the Fade In & Fade Out Effects
15 How to Download Sound Samples from the Internet

16 How to Use the Amplify Effect

17 How to Edit Metadata

18 How to Multitrack Record
19 How to Use a Click Track

ACTIVITY 3 - Multitrack Recording in Audacity - Beatbox

20 How to Make Silence
21 How to Use the Change Tempo Effect
22 How to Use the Equalization Effect
23 How to Reverse Sound

24 Stereo Mono

ACTIVITY 4 - How to Mess Up a Piece of Music

25 How to Remove Vocals from a Recording

SETUP TUTORIALS

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SETUP 1 How to Install Audacity

SETUP 2 How to Configure Recording and Playback Hardware

SETUP 3 How to Install the LAME Encoder

PROJECTS

PROJECT 1 - Create a Halloween Soundscape

PROJECT 2 - Interview a Superhero

PROJECT 3 - Create a Radio Play

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