- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from Musicradiocreative.com
in this video I'll show you how
to make your voice sound good in Audacity.
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- Okay, let's dive straight in I've got a recording
I made earlier let's play a little bit.
Hello, this is my very first recording--
Okay, you can hear it's a little bit quiet.
I'm gonna show you three effects
that will just boost this up and make it sound great.
The first thing we want to, well amplify the sound
of this a little bit more.
So double clicking to select all of the audio
we can go into Effect, and then we can normalize this,
which is exactly what we want to do.
And we'll normalize the peak amplitude
that's the highest point in the wave form
to minus one dB.
Click okay, now everything's nice and loud.
But we can still see there are some loud parts,
and some quiet parts.
We'll work on that in a minute, but next we'll go to Effect,
and we'll go to the Filter Curve EQ.
This is where we can really start
to shape the sound of this voice.
And you can copy just what I do, on your voice.
First thing, we gonna put in a High-Pass Filter,
that'll roll off some of the base
and the rumble the low end we don't need.
Let's preview,
hello, this is my very first recording--
Okay. It's thinned me out a little bit
so I'm gonna just pull that back down a little bit
and preview again.
Hello, this is my very first recording--
Maybe we'll go down just a smidge more,
just moving these points along.
Hello this is my very first--
That's cool.
So now I've got rid of the low end,
anywhere where there's mic bumps or planes
or cars going by,
next I'm gonna put on some high end anything
from just above 4,000 Hertz, let's hear.
Hello, this is my very first--
Okay that's way too much, it's distorting
and sibilance so let's bring that down.
Hello, this is my very first recording.
Okay. And then we'll go ahead and add in some points here
so we can add in some small little points around here
let's try that.
Hello, this is my very--
And we can try and find a broad area where the voice shines
probably gonna be higher up,
to maybe the 2,000, 3,000 vocal presence area,
hello, this is my I very--
And let's bring that down it's a bit too much there,
hello, this is my very first--
And then we might just do a little boost
around the base section around here,
just to boost up the base on the voice.
Hello, this is my very first recording--
Happy with that, click okay, and now we've added the EQ,
finally it's the Compressor, which is right here
in the effect menu again.
And my settings for this threshold minus 20,
noise floor minus 60, ratio three to one,
attack time 0.1 seconds, and release time one second.
Click okay, and you'll see this go from loud and soft
and loud and soft to a constant volume,
and we've got something like this.
Hello, this is my very first recording in Audacity,
and I'd like to sound as good as I can.
So now we've got a real radio or podcast sound applied
to the voice in three simple steps.
First, normalize to get your audio sounding louder,
second, use that EQ so that you can draw on different bits,
increase the highs, roll off the lows,
do a few notches here and there to make things sound better,
and of course, Compressor finally, to level out all
of your audio and make your voice sound a lot better.
Hope this helps you,
if you have any questions do let me know
in the comments down below.
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