What is an audio track?
Also called: audio lane, separate audio tracks
Definition
An audio track is one stream of sound in a recording, such as the microphone or the computer’s sound, that can be adjusted separately from the others.
When a recorder keeps each source as its own track, a voice that is too quiet against the system sound can be fixed afterwards. When everything is mixed into one track while recording, it cannot.
In Sceed
Sceed keeps the microphone and system sound as separate lanes on the timeline.
Related terms
- System audio
- System audio is the sound the computer itself is playing, as opposed to sound picked up by a microphone.
- Noise gate
- A noise gate silences an audio signal whenever it falls below a set volume, removing background noise between words.
- Normalization
- Normalization adjusts the volume of a recording to a consistent target level.