Audacity
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“For podcasting, I record in Audacity – it's been my go-to since ~2004, when I started my first podcast at age 12 (what a nerd).”
Kate Sloan Interview, Freelance writer · via Uses This 
“For basic recording and editing of auditions, I just use Audacity -- it's a free, simple, no-frills recording program that I've used for over a decade now so I know it inside and out.”
Kira Buckland Interview, Voice actress · via Uses This 


“Before I even started composing, I used (and still use) Audacity for basic audio work, like trimming, cutting samples, noise removal, and splicing songs together.”
Cat Cornett Interview, Composer, synth musician · via Uses This 

“I use Audacity to edit audio.”
Supper Mario Broth Interview, Gaming weblogger · via Uses This 
“I use Audacity for audio, because obviously.”
Dan Marshall Interview, Game developer (Size Five Games) · via Uses This 
“I just use Audacity for the podcast.”
Liz Ryerson Interview, Musician, writer, podcaster, artist, game designer · via Uses This 
“For audio, Audacity, which is also free & good.”
Dante Douglas Interview, Writer, game designer · via Uses This 
“For recording music and attempting some sound editing I use the free software Audacity.”
Annie Segarra Interview, YouTuber, actress, activist · via Uses This 
“The main part of my computer workflow outside of the Live environment is Audacity, a free, open source program I use for sample editing.”
Aroon Karuna Interview, Experimental musician, intellectual property attorney · via Uses This 
“I use the Linux Mint sound recorder for the recording, and Audacity for audio editing.”
Milena Popova Interview, Activist, PhD researcher (consent in fan fiction) · via Uses This 

“If I need to work on audio stuff, I use Audacity.”
Shelly Alon Interview, Game developer (Glitchskier, Sputnik Eyes) · via Uses This 
“Sometimes I use Audacity to record audio snippets.”
Seth Bling Interview, Game hacker, streamer, speedrunner · via Uses This 
“I have also dabbled in Audacity in order to make simple sound effects and record scratch dialogue.”
Nina Freeman Interview, Level designer (Fullbright), game designer (Cibele) · via Uses This 
“For sound in my games, I usually just do simple mixing or noise reduction in Audacity, which is probably the only totally free open-source thing I use.”
Robert Yang Interview, Game developer, teacher · via Uses This 
“For audio I use the free but awesome Audacity, combined with the $5 lavalier mic, which can remove a lot of background noises quite easily.”
Michael Sng Interview, Toy designer (Codename Colossus) · via Uses This 

“For audio podcasts, I record everything in Audacity, and have been for years.”
Veronica Belmont Interview, TV host, emcee, podcaster · via Uses This 
“For recording I often use Audacity, a free, open source, recording program which works great and is very simple.”
Kim Boekbinder Interview, Artist, musician (The Impossible Girl) · via Uses This 
“Audacity can't be beat for waveform editing despite not looking very pretty.”
Adam Wiggins Interview, Hacker, entrepreneur (Heroku) · via Uses This 
“I use Audacity to convert my voice track to stereo and mix it with my TempleOS .SND output file.”
Terry Davis Interview, Developer (TempleOS) · via Uses This 
“Audio work is done in Audacity.”
Brendon Chung Interview, Indie game developer (Blendo) · via Uses This 
“For the podcast radio show we use Audacity, a free open source audio program.”
Dave Jones Interview, Electrical engineer, video blogger (EEVblog) · via Uses This 
“I edit Nostalgia for the Net podcasts with Audacity.”
Joanne McNeil Interview, Writer, editor · via Uses This 
“For making games, I'm using Audacity for editing sounds, which somehow manages to be less usable than Sound Forge was ten years ago.”
Bennett Foddy Interview, Moral philosopher, game developer · via Uses This 
“When I record voices by myself, I quickly bang it out on Audacity.”
Lee Hardcastle Interview, Indie clay animator · via Uses This 
“Audacity for quick clean up of audio files.”
Adrian Holovaty Interview, Web developer (EveryBlock, Django), musician · via Uses This