- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from Musicradiocreative.com
and welcome to my Audacity podcast tutorial.
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- [Announcer] Check something
and make sure it sound right, boy.
It sound right, boy.
- Let's get stuck in and find out
how to quickly edit a podcast in Audacity.
Some tips you need to know.
So I'm starting off
with a completely blank Audacity window.
Make sure when you are recording for the first time,
you set up your audio interfaces up here at the top.
For me on my PC, I've got a focus right audio interface
with my mic plugged in as the input
and on the line out, I've got a road audio interface
that I have my headphones plugged into.
With stereo recording. of course,
you can change that to mono if it's a speech only podcast
and hit record.
Hello and welcome to my podcast episode.
I am really excited to do some editing
and make this sound great.
Okay, so there's a basic recording of a podcast
that I've created now in Audacity
but you might wanna go further than that.
You might wanna go further than recording your own thing.
You might wanna edit someone else's podcast
and often what people do is they record two separate tracks.
I'm dragging and dropping these audio files
onto Audacity now, and it's gonna bring them
into their own separate tracks where I can do some mixing
of this podcast.
There's track number one and track number two
is now coming in.
It's about a 60 minute podcast in duration.
Take a look at that.
F four to get my zoom tool, which is up here, this one here,
and then I can zoom right in on wherever I want to,
maybe the start of this podcast
and start to play some audio back.
Let's hit F1 to get the selection tool
and play from about here.
- [Female Voice] Guest ever, actually,
'cause you've been racking them up, haven't you?
- [Female Voice] Yeah, yeah, we have.
- Now you can see on this podcast, it's not quite in sync,
so I'm gonna use this move tool, this time shift tool,
F five to get that on and I can move that
into the right place to make it sound better.
- [Female Voice] Actually,
'cause you've been racking them up haven't you?
- [Female Voice] Yeah, yeah we have.
- So you can hear now I've got the host track in sync
with the guest track, but listen here
- [Female Voice] Guest ever, whoop, actually 'cause you.
- She went whoop there and I might wanna get rid of that.
Really easy to do.
Selection tool, highlight that bit I want to get rid of,
and then we will go along in the menus to find exactly
what we need, generate us what we need.
Silence, click okay.
Boom, it's gone.
- [Female Voice] Guest ever, actually
'cause you've been racking them up haven't you?
- [Female Voice] Yeah.
- And we can do the same for this little area
and any area where we shouldn't hear anything
from the other speaker.
We can just go in, generate silence,
okay to it.
Boom.
And it tidies these things up nicely.
We can obviously go through the whole of the podcast
by zooming out and do the same for each track
until we get somewhere satisfactory.
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And then we might go ahead and do some other bits on here.
For instance, we might add on a compressor
to the first track just to level out the audio.
And again, we'd kind of select everything here,
effect, compressor.
I like to leave these as default.
I find minus 20, three to one ratio and everything else
the same.
Kind of gives a nice little boost to the audio.
It's gonna take some time 'cause there's an hour's worth
of audio that it's applying the compressor to.
But when that happens, you'll see that the hosts track
is leveled out quite nicely.
And you can see the guest audio
is already quite nicely compressed.
All of the waveform is a consistent volume really?
So we're doing quite well there.
And look now with that compressor, this is good.
Probably means we could actually increase the volume
on this a smidge.
So I'm gonna go to effect, amplify.
Maybe bring it up by a few DB, maybe about three DB.
Make sure allow clipping isn't ticked
because then it won't allow you to clip your audio.
There we go.
You see it wouldn't allow me to go too high with my amplify.
Otherwise I would clip part of that track.
So quite an intelligent amplify there.
I can do it like that or I prefer the envelope tool up here,
'cause this really allows me to visually see
how much I'm boosting the track by.
And now we can play this back.
- [Female Voice] Best ever, actually.
- Watch the level meters.
- [Female Voice] 'Cause you've been racking them up,
haven't you?
- [Female Voice] Yeah, yeah we have.
But that's pretty cool, I didn't.
- And you can probably see she's a little bit loud there.
So I might just turn that down ever so slightly
until we get a decent level.
Now the next thing I'm gonna wanna do
is maybe bring in a piece of music
to start off this podcast episode.
Let's drag and drop that music track.
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And now you'll see with the zoom tool I can get right in
on the start of this podcast.
Let's go actually out a little bit and just in right here.
And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna actually go ahead
and drag these files out just a tiny bit
until we get to a good place and play this audio.
- [Host] And now to introduce today's special guest
- And I can probably do with slipping this along
a little bit more.
There we go.
Let's see if they stay in sync there.
- [Host] And now to introduce today's special guest,
Michelle Point.
- Okay, so we got some good stuff going on there
but the music bed's a bit too loud.
I'm gonna, first of all, go ahead
and select the whole of my music bed
and I'm gonna go effect, amplify, turn it down a few DB.
So it's a little bit quieter.
Let's play that back now
- [Host] And now to introduce today's special guest.
- Okay, we're getting there, but there's another cool tool.
And for this, I need to move the music bed to the top.
I've just dragged that track up to the top
and then I can go to effect, auto duck and I can run this
and look, it auto ducks the music with the host's speech.
Absolutely fantastic.
- [Host] And now to introduce today's special guest
Michelle Pointer is the founder.
- There we go, sounding really, really good.
And finally I might want to select the rest of this
and then fade out.
I can use the envelope tool to do this.
Just place a few key frames on here and fade the music
slowly down until it's completely faded
out using that envelope tool.
So a great way to mix two separate tracks.
You also learn how to record and set up your audio interface
and how to level the tracks so their the same volume
use a bit of a compressor to get everything sounding equal
and even mix in music and fade it down as the host comes in.
A really good basic introduction to podcast editing
in Audacity.
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