- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from musicradiocreative.com.
In this video, I'll show you some really cool voice effects
that you can do inside Audacity.
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So let's take a look.
I've got a voiceover recording here,
and I'm going to double click
to select everything in this right here.
And then I'm gonna go into my Effect menu
and start to play with this.
One of my favorites out of the box is the Phaser
'cause you can do so much with it.
Let's start the playback.
- [Speaker] Here are some of the coolest voice effects.
So you can add that kind of alien sound.
Let's focus in on this bit and start the playback.
- [Speaker] Here are some of the coolest.
And of course the more I crank up the feedback,
(high-pitched phaser zings)
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you get a real kind of, wew, wew, wew to that.
You can turn the Output gain up.
- [Speaker] the coolest voice effects.
And you can change the depth and things like that.
And start to really play about with this
until you get the sound you are looking for.
- [Speaker] Here are some of the coolest voice effects.
So, you can get that phased under watery sound.
It's really, really awesome.
Another thing I like to do quite a bit in Audacity
is add a bit of reverb,
a bit of kind of roominess to my voiceovers,
particularly when I'm making jingles or any kind of imaging.
So that's available in Effect again,
and you wanna go for Reverb here.
Now, of course, we need to select everything as usual,
control or command + A.
Effect, Reverb, and then we can start to play.
Let's go to the Factory Preset.
Let's go to the Default and play it back.
- [Speaker] Here are some of the coolest voice effects.
Pretty good out of the box.
Now we've,
- [Speaker] Here are some of the coolest
as well as this possibility,
got other great presets like Vocal 1.
- [Speaker] Here are some of the coolest voice effects.
I like that 'cause that's quite a subtle one.
We've also got Vocal 2 as well. Let's preview that.
- [Speaker] Here are some of the coolest voice effects.
And if you only wanna get the reverb,
click Wet Only and you'll get just that kind of room echo.
- [Speaker] Here are some of the coolest voice.
So you can hear what you're working with.
Now, you can, of course, change all of these,
if you wanna make it so that it's like bigger and roomier,
increase the Room Size.
If you want a bigger reverb, increase that.
You can change the Wet Gain,
which is the sound of the reverb,
or the dry gain, the sound of the voiceover,
make that louder.
And the Stereo Width,
to make that reverb nice and stereo.
And the final effect I'm gonna show you is chorus.
Now, in Audacity, if you go to the Effect menu,
there is no chorus effect.
Well, not that I can see anyway,
it's something I love doing with audio.
So let me show you how to do it easily in Audacity.
First, I'm gonna take this voiceover,
hit control or command + C and copy it.
And then I'm gonna go to Tracks,
and I'm gonna Add a New Stereo track,
and I'm gonna do the same again,
Tracks and then Add New Stereo track.
And what I'm going to do now is just paste that voiceover
and then use this, the time shift tool,
to just shift these slightly outta sync
with each other and play back.
- [Speaker] Here are some of the coolest.
Okay. That's probably a little too shifted.
So let's actually zoom right in, and get just a slight,
we only wanna do milliseconds apart.
That's literally all we wanna do.
- [Speaker] Here are some of the coolest voice effects.
So that sounds pretty chorusy, but it's not very stereo.
That's a mono effect.
So all I need to do now is take these two separate tracks,
Pan one to the left, a 100%,
one to the right, a 100%.
- [Speaker] Here are some of the coolest voice effects,
inside Audacity.
And you've got yourself a really cool chorus,
with just a few extra processes
to go through there, inside Audacity.
Did I miss something out?
Anything you wanna see in a future video?
Let me know in the comments down below.
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