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Audio Mastering an Album With Audacity | How To Make Your Songs Loud and Even (Remake)
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2024
- How to master an album or group of songs with Audacity. To learn all about Audacity, a lot of people recommend The Book Of Audacity amzn.to/2xpHSZs
This is a remake of an earlier video I made with higher quality audio and video. How to make your songs loud in Audacity, how to master an album in Audacty, using the Hard Limiter, Amplify, etc... You can check out the older video here • Audio Mastering an Alb...
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Thank you for all your invaluable help, sir. People say here in Brazil, where I live, that we can't make good mixing and mastering with Audacity. i've just proved them dead wrong especially using your tips on mastering!
I'll share this information with my friends here and spread these good news fo the ones who can't afford an expensive audio program.
Obrigado amigo! Thanks so much, I'm really glad this helped you out. Check my playlist for all my audacity tutorials in one place! ua-cam.com/play/PLs9zAgLmBvnmraVVuGi_sxUfXnpZ5b1Uo.html
I think u're wright about the "loudness" in the middle...I thought also..
"can't make good mixing and mastering with Audacity. i've just proved them dead wrong" - Oh, but you didn't, as your mixing and mastering _wasn't_ good. It's horribly overcompressed and god-awful.
@@notmorganfreeman6632 wheres your music?
@@randybobandy4385 Do I need to be a chef to tell when the soup has too much salt?
In 2020 this is still a useful tutorial 😊 wish I'd found this videos years ago 🤯
totally going to use this. Audacity makes things so much easier
never messed with the hard limiter. this seems to be the key to getting every track around the same volume. I was always trying to do it manually with the amplifier and it was challenging to not get the distorted sounds you were mentioning. also I agree 100% with you concerning the compression
Use reverb also by adjusting 75 to 78 or 77 ..sounds really fantastic!
That’s pushed way over, you’re killing dynamics!
This is basically what most music does now. The loudness wars won, while music lost.
@@stuaxo I wonder how much music from last two decades will be remembered.
@@upsdwatrzy2252 true - with less dynamics there is less to remember and its fatiguing to listen to. Maybe there will be a backlash one day.
@@upsdwatrzy2252 a lot
Any of you heard of Omnia de clipper vst?
Thanks for the tips my friend. I have several tracks where the vox sounded really 'buried' in the mix and found this a good way to bring them out to the front. Worked like a charm. The strip through the middle you were talking about, also generally contains the vocals I have found. Cheers from Toronto!
Thank you so much. This was extremely helpful. I'm definitely going to keep this bookmarked for when I finish recording my album.
You're welcome, glad it helped
thank you man for that shit with hard limiter, I've been trying to figure out how to make songs louder without distorting it, thank you
appreciate your work!
Second decent audacitiy video tutorial on youtube. The first one was one of your videos too. Subscribed!
I will do that anytime..I mastered 100 songs to insane high Quality 24 bit /48khz
And adjustments...sounds is insane!
Hi Demonic, You have made my day today. This tutorial is just what I am looking for. Now I don't need to make the note and adjust the amp. volume for each song I play. Thank you very much. Cheer!!!
In my humble opinion, I think this kills the dynamics of your track, cause it will make it exaggeratedly flat. I took for example the Paramore song "now" and they put a limiter of course, but they left some dynamics to not make the song sound too flat. So I think this tutorial is phenomenal, cause I use more Fl than Audacity, but I wouldn't go too crazy with the hard limiter.
I agree really, but like it or not today people try to make music as loud as possible which is why I made the tutorial like this. I don't usually push my personal work quite this much. But it's all personal taste. If it helps people out, that's really all I want to do.
You're very right about that, and your tutorial for sure helped many people, man, including me, cause I had no idea how to do that in audacity. God bless your life.
Thank you Thiago
Its sad that music has become a loudness wankfest... But unfortunately, if your tracks not loud enough, its perceived by the ear as being lower quality. Esp
noticeable when scrolling between tracks on the internet. I kind of blame the net for loudness wars, and Metallica!... Iggy Pop massacred the Raw Power remix too.
I’ve been remastering CD albums with Audcacity for personal listening since last year, works great!
its priceless. the slickness and the passion of the devs. priceless. what is cheaper and better than soft? Piracy is NOT the answer if you
Thanks for this. Audacity is a great tool for mastering and this has helped me understand this more.
+Blues House Glad this helped you out!
Dude! Thanks ever so much. there are not many vids out here for Mixing Down on Audacity...Only problem is though that I encountered was that in "Export Multiple", it once again Exported Individually and wouldnt Mix Down...so I tried it again in "Export Selected Audio"" & attempted in MP3 and it wouldnt let me neither so I tried again in FLAC and it Mixed Down...I tested it in my Windows Media Player & It works. Thanks man (Also I rediscovered about "go to TRACKS...there it gives You the Option to MIX & RENDER".....I had 7 tracks, I set the Pans, I MIXED & RENDERED & It combined ALL 7 tracks to a STEREO Track, and Then I "Exported Selected Audio" to FLAC & it rendered it Playable just like an MP3. Thanks
I'm very happy to learn more from this video, very clear explanation. Thank you so much.
I can't help but imagine that I'm listening to this guy talk on a radio station, he just sounds like he made for the radio
Excellent video. Clearly explained all the basics to get started on soft soft. Thanks
Great video and a VERY GOOD UNDERSTANDING of using Audacity. Very informative. LIKED and SUBSCRIBED
new to audacity......thanks....crash course of awesome
Great tutorial! Even though I will never personally use the features discussed in the video, it was good to see how this stuff is done...............Subbed & will be watching a lot more of your videos...................Thanks
That was so clear, thanks for the tutorial! It really Helped me. Salute from Argentina
So well done and helpful.
hi, just getting into audacity so appreciate your videos, thanks. My question: I see the playback volume of your tracks goes constantly into the red, shouldn't that be avoided?
Very nice job of explaining and showing how to do this.
HUGELY informative. Thank you very much! :)
You're very welcome!
Thanks a lot for this video dude ! You saved my life.
+Zack Styrax glad you found it helpful!
25 minutes of gold
What Version of Audacity are you using? The one I have does not have a tracks tab.
I have a question for you. Instead of using a FLAC file could I use a MP3 file to save. Sorry if I sound uneducated I’ve been writing music all of my life but, I just started recording myself.
Yes you can export as MP3, however MP3 is a compressed format and is lower quality than Flac or Wav.
Demonic Sweaters thx for the information and I appreciate you responding to my comment means a lot honestly
My pleasure
Thanks for this video! It really helped me out a lot!
Great job very informative I lean a lot from this post 5stars
Yeah, thanks, great person for sharing your knowledge.
How did you figure putting the 2nd at 4.0 instead of 3.2 like the first track would put them at almost the same level
I only needed to know how to label export. I did try that hard limiter/amplify trick, but it really didn't sound good. I had already mastered my album in FL Studio to between -13 and -10 dBFS, depending on the track. Thanks for the info.
Hey man, just want to say thanks! this video saved my ASS on finishing an audio project.
U can use the volume..louder
And the treble change to +5 then the bass -5
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Thank you so much,hard to teach a old dog new tricks lol that is going to help me out a bunch.
you're welcome my friend, I'm glad it helped you
Sir, you are a SAINT!
not at all, like not even in the slightest, but glad I could help you with making some loud tracks, haha.
Thank you much, very helpful!
will these settings work with Vocals too? on a beat? will it make it sound just as good and professional with these settings?
hard limiter doesn't seem to work (Effect Failed To Initialize)... :(
thanks a ton! helped a lot. subbed
GREAT video, thank you
You just saved me SO much time. Didn't know what I didn't know!
glad it helped you :)
i have a beat in one channel, and vocals in another. when the bass on the beat stops for a second, the vocals become ear rape, then when the bass comes back in, the vocals go back to normal
export it then place it in audacity and do what he does. Having the beat separated from the vocals is the main problem.
Man you just made my day. Great tutorial. Cheers man.
Glad I could help!
Wow, thank you so much for this video tutorial!!! :)
Red Team Musique glad you found it useful!
i have question my hard limiter has different types on audacity it first option is input gain (db) mono/left 0.00
2nd type is input gain (db) right channel 0.00 the 3rd type is limit to (db) 0.00 so those are my options after finishing my song so i can mix and master which one is the one so it can sound good i don't to sound distorted it
yeah, that's the updated version of the plugin. Just raise input gain of L and R equal amounts, I usually do between 2 and 3 and leave limit to set to 0. Play around with it a bit and see what works.
Thanks for the tutorial, but I'm wondering why you cut all the dynamics in the song. It makes it sounds louder, but doesn't it also make it sound "flatter" ?
You're absolutely right. That's 21st century music for you. Everyone wants their tracks to be very loud. However I do find the Audacity Hard Limiter to be pretty transparent for the most part, and at least you don't end up with a lot of compression coloring.
Although having all the songs consisted with this method I can not totally agree with you about loosing the dynamics in the process. I will try and experiment on going with a little bit less than maxing up the volume. I'd rather had some breathing air in my songs, but then again it is also a question about genre like heavy metal vs. acoustic ballads.
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!
Great video! Super helpful!
No, his advice is severely damaging to the recording and should never be followed.
Awesome vid! Now I realize my audio quality is just crappy :p
Fantastic! Thanks so much! 🎸
I have a good few songs recorded in the 70's (yes, old git!) that do not sound good. The sibilance is excruciatingly painful. Can one of your Audacity videos help?
im just used limither
amply make our song peak!
can i listen a full this song ??
Thanks for this useful information.
+rpd801 you're welcome. Happy you found it helpful!
is there a way to make beats sound better on Audacity does anyone know?
THANKS !!!!! a simple process that really helped !
Glad you found it helpful :)
Thanks
linux music studio... yet uses windows o_0
BUT... the information provided here is superb!
Thanks, but it is a very old video there's a newer version I streamed live in 2018.
Really appreciate this walk through
Can u help me i cant find equalisation in effects...
Excellent tutorial, I tried this with 6 four minute songs, the final song in the chain came out at over 3hrs !? I can't figure out why. I removed the last song and again the new last song in the chain looked like it was going the same way as the export time was about 12 minutes instead of about 10 seconds like the previous tracks. Any ideas? I'm on pc windows 10.
you most likely just have some blank space at the end of the session. Highlight the grey area after the last song then drag to the end and press delete.
Demonic Sweaters thanks for getting back so soon. I did the mastering of the final song on its own and added it to the chain and it's exported as it should. Now the tracks have the consistency I was after. Many thanks.
Thanks man
Ur voice is super I spoke fr fun
it's okay, I thought it was funny. :P
your copy of audacity seems to have alot more effects then mine,where did you get them?
www.audacityteam.org/download/plug-ins/ scroll down to where it says LADSPA plugins
I don't have the Hard Limiter plugin, what do I do?
What OS are you using? You may need to get the most current version of Audacity or download the plugin from the Audacity webpage.
demonic sweaters Win 10, and I have the latest version of Audacity.
Then you will probably need to go to the Audacity website and download it
@@Algorox if yours is like mine then you should find it in a drop down menu in the limit option, there should be a soft and hard limit aswel as a soft and hard clipper.
I`d like to string some songs together for a demo. Not sure how.
I need a demo of 8 songs ( 40 second segments ) blended together. How do I do that in Audacity?
Robert Thomas good question, I'll make a video on this. I'll try to have it done by tomorrow!
here ya go! ua-cam.com/video/ya0xMYtPmOU/v-deo.html
demonic sweaters i have a question for you. i tried this after i recorded on my track. i did everyting you said but my voice sounds really distorded in the final mix after i did what you said. could you help me with this pleas :)
+Jeroen Borret you most likely did it too much. I say that in the video. If you overdue it, it'll distort.
Hi can you help me on the mastering.....
thanks for the info
thanks for the tutorial.
You're welcome, thanks for watching. Glad you found it helpful.
Audacity v 2.2.2 doesn't available
Where is the link to download Audacity i did a search but dont see it
www.audacityteam.org/
u saved my life
+lidor turgeman haha, well I'm glad!
thank you ! :D
Thanks Dog🔥🔥👊🏾👊🏾
Thank U - Great help
His advice is bad and severely damages the material.
shit, awesome video dude!
thank you!
Hi there. Im at the point of sending my audacity tune to a mastering studio. Would they need to have audacity also to hear the links i email them?
you will most likely want to export them a stereo wav rather than an audacity project. Did you record the whole song in Audacity?
demonic sweaters hi, recorded tune on a drum machine with sampler etc.... they sent me back stems (tracks) as they need to start exact 0.1 seconds so they all fall into place when played together.
Soni put into audacity and matched them all up back into exact time again. But when i send them over to the studio again via email could they hear them do you think? Or would I need to do something else
Thomas sttt you will need to mix the track in Audacity then export it as a wav file, send them the wav to have mastered
demonic sweaters thanks pal.... appreciated
thank you so much!!!!!
Hi there. I know you posted this video quite a while ago.. I just stumbled across it as I try to research some mastering techniques. I recorded some stuff in Garageband. I tried your techniques from this video, but for some reason, I don't see the dramatic changes in my waveform/volume. I can't seem to get the boost that you got. When I did somehow get it louder, the sound started distorting.
Question: If you were to put this on a CD, would it make one track flow seamlessly into the next or not? Cuz nobody ever shows if it does or not.
That's a good question! This actually depends more on what you use to burn the CD. I always used to use Sony CD Architect for this. It allows you to set starting points of each track on the CD regardless of the file as well as make crossfades and 0 gap transitions.
demonic sweaters could you show how to do that in a program like iTunes or Windows Media Player? mainly the latter because I find myself using that one more. but I still use occasionally when I want to switch it up.
Donovan Muse sorry but iTunes nor Windows Media Player have those options. you could try just making sure there's no gaps in Audacity then burn it in one and see, but I'm honestly not sure if it will work.
demonic sweaters gotcha i'll try thank you tho
good luck!
i have mac version it don’t have hard limiter it has a peak limiter
any suggestions??
Hi Justin. Have recorded a music song and put on to cd. But there is hardly any bass come through, when played on external cd players. Its more middle+treble. Is there anything I can add? As still have the recording on Audacity.
Your help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Paul.
The sound of CD shouldn't change what you hear in Audacity. Make sure you're not mixing too loud, or that you're using flat response speakers to mix to make sure you're getting an accurate representation of what you're hearing.
Thanks so much for this, think I'll use it for an ep I'm doing
+Ross Mc Gald you found it helpful Ross. Thanks for watching!
+demonic sweaters Yeah like I say I'm going to try this very soon
Sir can u help me mix my sound to have good instrumentals 😞
Your mixes sound good to me!
i really want the music that u have on here
I record 1 main track with acmp on keyboard and use it as a cue to record other tracks but the pain is that all the other tracks are being overdubbed and for ex if I record guitar that is being played with keyboard even if I click solo little bit of noise of the other track is coming into other tracks .. I want other tracks to be recorded separately though I play other tracks while recording is there any way
this most likely has to do with your audio interface. You shouldn't be getting bleed by the other tracks. Sometimes cheap usb mixers will create this problem.
so if I convert the flac audio into mp3, will it make any difference to the track or tags?
+50billion Well, the sound will obviously be not quite as good from flac to mp3, but depending on what you convert it with the tag should be kept in tact, but it just depends on what program you use to convert it. If you use Audacity, it will still be there.
demonic sweaters thank you
you're welcome :)
I just wanna know when mixing and mastering vocals for a rap song does the sound meter hitting red all the time bad
It can, but not necessarily. My experience is Audacity can touch the red without distortion, but you have to be careful. It's best to try to avoid it if possible.
dude not trying to be rude just letting u know u need to lower your volume in audacity next time u make a tutorial whenever the music plays its really hard to here you, other then that great video thanks for the help :)
zack boling Hey Zach, yeah you're right, still getting the screen capture stuff fine tuned, thanks for the input!
no problem man hey in the next few days im gonna be releasing some remix's and music videos would u mind taking a look when they go live and tell me what you think
Esoteric Indeed sure, just send me links or + me when they're up
thanks man i took some video editing classes in the past and im trying to get into music editing i posted a music video a year ago but i only have 35k views on it so i dont think my first attempt was well liked hopefully my future videos will be more well recived
Esoteric Indeed hey 35k is great actually. Many people never get that much, so good for you!
The basics for anyone. Definitely putting tNice tutorials in my notes.
I have one long mix of several songs and the levels of the songs are off how do
I even out the entire track so that so that the volume of the entire
track is the same?
pretty much the same way, just use your mouse to highlight the area you're working on.
Hey do you know the sooundtrack of interstellar movie, Hans Zimmer - No Time for Caution Film version, it has vocals but is it possible to make it louder in Audacity?
my tracks, you cn see the bass drum and snare popping out the mix. when i lower them in the original mix, then its too quiet to hear. im not making hip hop or r&b. im making music like you.
Mix to sound not to looks.
Do you know how can I make my vocals sound good with the instrumental? Thank you :)
I think you are talking about mixing? I will make a tutorial about it sometime this week. So check back next week sometime.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much! I didn't expect a fast response. Thank you so much :) Please also talk about how to make our voice clearer and better sounding with the instrumental :)
You just earned a sub :D
Omar Mondigo sure, thanks for the idea for a tutorial!
No problem man! I've been looking at the internet for mixing tutorials but I can't find a proper one. I really feel you can do the job. Good luck man! God bless :)
Kyah Omar did you find anything to make voice sound clear making a song on Audicity?