- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from musicradiocreative.com.
In this video, I'm gonna show you how to use Audacity
to record a song.
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♪ Check the mic and make sure it sound right, boy ♪
(relaxing synth and drums)
♪ It sound right, boy. ♪
Okay, I've got a song recorded,
it's actually a short jingle
that we use on our weekly livestream.
Let's solo this track and play little bit of it.
♪ Free jingle Friday ♪
And take it off solo.
(uplifting energetic music)
And there's the music in the background.
So as you can see, I'm using two tracks,
one track for the music and one track for the vocals.
The music is way too loud, so straight away,
I'm gonna switch on the Envelope tool here,
and I'm just gonna use it to turn down the music
a little bit.
Let's try again.
(energetic uplifting music) ♪ Free Jingle Friday ♪
And I'm still finding that is a bit too loud,
I can actually use that Envelope tool to sort of move down
just the audio there, where the vocals come in.
(uplifting energetic music) ♪ Free Jingle Friday ♪
And I'm feeling like that's a much better mix.
Onto the next step, and this is where I want
to really EQ the vocals, make them pop out,
add a bit of reverb, maybe some echo,
to sort of master the final production
and make it into the song; the finished jingle
that I'm gonna have at the end.
So, what I'll do is, I'll go back to my selection tool.
I'm gonna select everything here, copy it,
Command or Ctrl+c, and then we'll go to Tracks,
Add New Stereo Track, Paste.
There we go.
Now I'm gonna mute out this original vocal,
and then if I mess everything up on this vocal,
I can always go back and bring in what I started with.
So over here, selecting everything.
First of all, I'll go in,
I'll use the compressor on these default settings here
to just compress the vocals a bit.
Let's listen.
(energetic uplifting music) ♪ Free Jingle Friday ♪
♪ Oh yeah ♪
Sounding pretty good.
Then, I can go in and I can use something
like a Filter Curve EQ,
and I've got a nice default setting there.
Let's listen to that.
♪ Free Jingle Friday ♪
Maybe a bit too much on the high-end there.
Let's bring that down and bring up a few vocals around here.
Let's play it back.
♪ Free Jingle Friday ♪
Click Okay.
Let's listen to what we got now.
(energetic uplifting music) ♪ Free Jingle Friday ♪
♪ Oh yeah ♪
♪ From musicradiocreative.com ♪
And then obviously we've got some echo
on this acapella track already,
but I want to add some reverb in as well.
So, I can go ahead and do that.
Let's go into Solo mode,
so we hear just the vocals,
and we'll go into Effect, Reverb,
and we'll go into Manage and we'll look for some presets,
and we might go for a Vocal 2 reverb, Stereo Width; massive.
We'll keep the Dry Gain up,
and we'll make the Wet Gain go up a bit more as well.
Lots of reverb and big Room.
And let's see what we got here.
♪ Free Jingle Friday ♪
♪ Oh yeah ♪
That's a good amount of reverb.
Let's apply that.
Bring it back into the mix now
by taking this one off Solo,
and muting out the original, and we've got this.
(energetic uplifting music) ♪ Free Jingle Friday ♪
♪ Oh yeah ♪
♪ From musicradiocreative.com ♪
Sounding good.
And if we wanna get creative,
we can go in and add a creative effect.
One of my favorites to use is the Phaser,
and we can play this back.
Let's have a little listen to this.
(energetic uplifting music) ♪ Free Jingle Friday ♪
And we can just play with some of the Phaser effects
to make this sound really spooky.
Let's play it back.
(energetic uplifting music) ♪ Oh yeah ♪
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So, you might find that a little bit too much;
that's a personal preference
if you wanna use something like that.
But just a few tips to get everything sounding great.
When we got the final song mix correct,
we can then go to File, Export, send it out as an MP3,
a WIE file, even Open Source OGG file,
and upload it to wherever we need.
But those are some basics on song mixing in Audacity.
Anything I missed, anything you'd like to know more about,
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