So, you’ve been thinking about holding a teleclass, or maybe creating an audio download as the freebie for your mailing list opt-in. The whole idea seems groovy until… the dog barks. Or the kids come in yelling. Or the UPS man knocks at the door. Or the phone rings (because you forgot to turn the ringer off before you started recording.) Or any number of other things that can spoil your recording.

Not to worry! You can edit that stuff out…easily and visually, no less! And…for free! Oh yeah…love it when it’s free.

How? With WavePad. It comes in both Windows and Mac versions.

Now, I have other audio editing software available to me… GarageBand that came with my Mac, SoundForge that I paid a pretty penny for, and Audacity that is also free. But the reason I love WavePad so much is that it’s the only one that I could fire up, load an audio file and figure out how to edit it in seconds…not minutes, or hours…without reading instructions.

WavePad is very easy to use. Simply import your audio file and you are ready to begin editing. Or, for recording your own audio tracks, simply click the ‘New’ button on the toolbar and then hit the ‘Record’ button to begin recording.

While editing, you can see as well as hear the audio, and that makes it easy to identify the dog bark or the cough. You can just highlight that piece and hit your delete key – and it’s gone, bye-bye!

When I’m conducting a teleclass that I know I want to provide as an audio download later, I try to remember to take a breath and leave a few seconds of silence between the chit-chat and the actual start of the content of the call. That silence is easily identified in the visual representation of the audio so it’s easy to see how much of the beginning of the call to highlight and delete.

So, go ahead and create your audios because now you have a tool that’s easy to use for editing them and preparing them for publication! You can learn more about WavePad’s features here. (And no, the links in this post are not affiliate links.)

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