in this video i show you how to adjust volume levels in Audacity
hi everyone my name is Joe and welcome to Ubitronics on this channel i help content creators
just like you use open source software today we're looking at adjusting audio levels in Audacity
now there are a few ways to do this so i've set up a project and recorded a quick snippet
which i'll play now this is me speaking normally and this is me speaking too loud
now the aim is for us to get the bit that is too loud down to the same volume as the original part
of the clip now as i said there's a few ways to do this i'm going to demonstrate two ways today
the first is a manual process where you can have fine grain adjustments and tuning available at
your fingertips and the second is done through a bit more of an automated approach so method one
you come up to this tool just here it's called the envelope tool and when you click it you get these
bars at the top and bottom of your track if you click where you want the audio to remain the same
and then click a little bit later you can't click too close together
but click a little bit later where you want it to change
now if this is in the middle of a track you'd want to do the same the other side for this i don't
have to but if you now lower this it's going to lower the volume of anything preceding the point
now i've manually adjusted that to look as i want i'm going to play that and see what it sounds like
this is me speaking normally and this is me speaking too loud much better now the thing to
realize with this is that you can always adjust it back and manually move it around so you've always
got fine grain control over your audio levels as you progress through if you're just starting off
don't forget to move back to the general selection tool otherwise that can start to do some pretty
weird things when you start moving around the interface okay so that's method one i'm now going
to undo that and achieve the same result with a different method so there we are back to the
original file now instead of clicking this tool and doing it manually i'm going to select the area
that i want to lower the volume on and then come up to effect and go to loudness normalization
and then you can change this here i'm going to leave mine as it is because i reckon it
will be about right but then you click ok and it will automatically zoom it down so you've
got a much quieter volume let's play this is me speaking normally and this is me speaking too loud
again much better both of these methods work both of them are absolutely fine to use it depends if
you want to do yours through automation and if you have clips like this and then maybe later on
and then maybe later on again you can do that through the effect loudness normalization to then
make sure you get the same volume each time very quickly and easily if you've got a one-off piece
of content then you probably want to use this just because then you can adjust it as you need and you
know you're not going to really need to use that again so i do hope that's been helpful to you
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