- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from musicradiocreative.com.
In this video, I'll show you how to use Audacity for rap.
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Check the mic and make sure it sound right, boy.
It sound right, boy.
Now I'm not gonna win any awards for rapping,
but I will show you some tips
to make your rap vocal sound better.
Here's a Musicbed that I'm gonna be using
and it's from our production libraries.
Just go to mrc.fm/sfx to grab it for yourself.
First thing I'll do is go to tracks, Add New Stereo Track
and this is the track I'll record my rap vocals on,
let's hit record and do it.
♪ You know I'm gonna drop the beat ♪
♪ This ain't no incredible feat ♪
♪ For I got production power ♪
♪ We can do it in the hour ♪
Okay, like I say, no awards here
but we are working on making these vocals sound better.
Let's listen to what we lay down.
♪ You know, I'm gonna drop beat. ♪
♪ This ain't no incredible feat ♪
♪ For I got production power ♪
♪ We can do it in the hour ♪
Okay, so you wanna beef that up a make it sound better.
Let's select those vocals.
We'll go to Effect and we'll go to Filter Curve EQ
to start with,
we'll start with a flat line here
and we're gonna drag up some of the high end.
Let's preview it.
♪ You know I'm gonna drop the beat ♪
Okay, you got that nice crispiness.
Let's pull that down a little bit.
♪ You know I'm gonna drop the beat ♪
And then I'm gonna go ahead roll off
some of the low end like this.
So I'm just putting on a little filter here
to make this really crisp.
♪ You know I'm gonna drop the beat ♪
We might wanna back that off a bit
just to keep those vocals nice and full if we can.
♪ You know, I'm gonna drop the beat ♪
Let's pull it back a little bit more and a little bit more
and boost up some of the low end bass here and preview that.
♪ You know I'm gonna drop the beat ♪
Okay, that's got a cool rap sound to it now.
So let's click OK.
Let's go into Effect
and Compressor to really compress these vocals.
Everything can be left just like this
minus 20, three to one ratio, 0.1 for the attack time.
And one second for the release time.
So everything can be left just like that, click OK,
let's play back.
♪ You know I'm gonna drop the beat ♪
♪ This ain't no incredible feat ♪
Now you can probably hear
there's just a tiny bit of echo there.
As I recorded, I picked up a little bit of the rap track
as I was recording.
♪ You know I'm gonna drop the beat ♪
Trying to sync that up nicely.
♪ No incredible feat, ♪
♪ For I got production power ♪
♪ We can do it in the hour ♪
So we're starting to get like a bit of a rap sound
just using a bit of EQ and Compression.
I'm also gonna wanna go ahead and limit this
so it doesn't go too loud
and that's under the Limiter effect here
and we'll make this minus one, okay?
Minus one the high, hard limit should be the type
click OK.
And that's gonna stop any erroneous clips that we got there.
And next I might go ahead
and add on something like little bit of Echo,
this can help,
time delay, we might say, well for a 100 BPM track
what is the sort of BPM that I want to sync to there?
So we'll use, you can use either a BPM calculator
or you can just do it in your head if you know what it is.
But for me, I'm just dragging up a website
that tells me how many BPM and how many seconds that is.
So we're using 100 BPM here
and that's gonna be around about 0.4.
So let's preview that now.
♪ You know I'm gonna drop beat ♪
♪ This ain't no incredible feat ♪
So that might be slightly off.
So we probably need to change the K factor.
So it's not so much. ♪ You know ♪
♪ I'm gonna drop the beat ♪
And maybe make that 0.1
let's preview that.
♪ You know, I'm gonna drop the beat ♪
♪ This ain't no incredible feat ♪
So you can hear the echo going on in the background.
We can click OK to that.
And just a few effects there.
Probably we could find, dial that echo a little bit better
but so far what we've done is we've gonna ahead
and add some EQ.
We've enhanced the highs rolled off the base,
boosted a little bit of the low end left.
Then we compressed, we limited and we added some echo
but remember to grab yourself a BPM calculator
check the BPM of the track you're working to.
So 100 BPM there,
you can type in the correct figure for your echo.
So it syncs up with a beep perfectly.
And that is the start of creating rap in audacity.
Did I do a terrible job
or did you pick something up from this?
Let me know in the comments down below.
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