Three Audacity features I find very useful are add click track, add silence and add label track.

If I know the tempo of a selection I can add a click track at that tempo and then use the click track to count bars or as visual reference points. That's a great way to align multitracks.

Adding silence is a great way to gain space for a quick fade-in to soften abrupt sounding beginnings of a file (like when a song begins at full volume with no fade-in).

Add label is great for making notes about what's going on or what I want to do at a specific location in a file.


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