How To Make Your Voice Sound Better in Audacity
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This is how to make your voice sound better in Audacity for gameplay commentaries, when singing, performing a voice over and more. The native effects that come loaded on audacity have the power to make your voice sound great!
‼UPDATE FOR AUDACITY USERS ‼- I have made it easier than ever before to work with tricky audio. My brand new Audacity presets are out now. One click to GREAT sound :) Check them out here: mrc.fm/presets This is a great way for you to support my channel too 🙏🙏🙏
1. Equalization (High to about 6dB, Low to about 4 dB)
2. Amplify (Default values)
3. Compressor (-30dB, -50dB, 5:1, 0,10secs, 1.0secs)
4. Amplify (-3.00dB)
Thank you lol
Thanks!
very nice
nice thanks bro
Thanks
For anyone with Audacity 2.3.3 thad doesn't have Equalization:
It's called Filter curve in the effects menu!
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Thanksssss!!!
you are the real champ,thank you !
thanks m8
Wth I don't even have Filter Curve either lol
That is what I love about people making the effort to help us. 3 minuted of my time and an hour saved. Thank you!!!
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I like his points, but I would add a few notes:
1. Noise reduction - not every mic or sound recording system filters noise out, and so I'd always do that first
2. Compression sounds fine for short clips, But for longer ones, such as podcasts, I'd be wary as it can make every inhale very loud (esp. if recorded using a lapel mic), making the whole thing harder to listen to in the long run
3. It was very hard to tell the before and after with your commentary (which was edited in post-production) so closely intermixed
Overall, though, this advice is sound.
"this advice is sound"
No pun intended?
What would you recommend doing instead of compression. I work in audiobooks, and my breaths are so loud, but I’m also compressing.
@@gabrielmichael3701 iZotpe RX 8
I end up cutting ALL inhale sounds out of our 3 hour long podcasts. Not very efficient approach to editing but here we are 😅
@@zloygik Have you found a better way?
U missed noise reduction sir
Noise reduction is not needed if you record in a great environment.
@@MikeRussell Well most of us don't.
For example, desktop PCs introduce constant fan humming to your sound background.
Are u serious Classified YT is here no way bro . Big fan sir
Oh wow, never thought I'd see you here!
He did that when he did the compression by adjusting the noise threshold. The point at which the sound is allowed to go through. Usually at around -30db, though with my gear and environment I go for -40db or -50db
1:10 Equalizer
2:21 Amplify
2:39 Compressor
3:22 Reduce Amplify
omg you have the best voice! Go you! : ) new sub
@@bravefastrabbit770 go to t Socialblade, and check the date she commented here.
*For anyone looking for comparison:*
0:39 Before Edit
3:25 After Edit
There's nothing diffi
@@bity-bite There is
to be honest it sounds better first...
Thanks for that. They both sound good. Second one sounds louder..
Too hard to notice the different
Finally a VT in Audacity that isn't recorded by an 8-year-old who borrowed his moms dying computer.
*I'm talking about the one that ISN'T the voice acting prodigy, that is.*
+Mallowin After wanting for years to become a better singer I found Bens Singer Blog and this appears to be the top home study method (google it if you're interested)
looking for some editing tips and I came across your familiar face at the top of the comments (aka username and avatar) HELLO FRIEND.
HAHA! It's good to see you in one of the worst places ever!
*The UA-cam comments*
Mallowin how come every video I go to your allways in the top 5 comments
Great tips! One important thing about Audacity is that once you apply effects, there's no way to remove them if they're saved, so it's easy to overdo it and then you've ruined your sound sample. ALWAYS use copies of the takes that you like, that way the original raw recordings are always there to return to if you need them.
Thank you for the great tip! It's always smart to work with copies of your recordings in Audacity to avoid losing your original raw audio.
Massive THANK YOU for making my voiceover sound better, Mr.Mike! My old ways did not sound great, so I am very happy with my new results that I got out of this video! So again, thank you very much for the big help! :D
EQ Equalize (frequency vs voice)
N Normalize
C Compress (cutting edges of loud noise & boosting lower voice)
N Normalize (should be final to equal wave)
More Audacity tutorials here: ua-cam.com/play/PL6wGbZVVzENlzXKZJz3D1XmOZeL91GncR.html
THANK YOU MIKE YOUARE GUINIUS
thank you very much for this useful video :)
Better
thank you bro
Hie. I'm recordin using my laptop and a usb mic with the audacity software. After recording, I noticed that the vocals are in front of the beat. As in they are not flowing as they are supposed to. How do I fix that?
I'm sure someone has mentioned this, but you are not normalizing, you are amplifying. Amplify adds gain, in other words raises the amplitude (volume) across the board. If you are near to distortion before adding gain, you can easily distort your recording using this method. Also, when you say "amplify to minus 3 db", you are actually lowering the amplitude by 3 db. The amplify effect is not relative to zero, it is relative to the sample's volume. Audacity does have a normalize function, and it works in the way you describe. Normalize scans the entire file, finds the highest amplitude, (volume), and changes the gain so that the highest volume is at the point you set in the query box, relative to zero, and the rest of the file changes relative to that amplitude increase or decrease.
Thanks for your video.
i was wondering as i am a new user to it and was performing it along with him on a voice test. it had me all sorts of screwed up as it wasnt sounding out i wanted. some was very low some was distorted. i am not using amplify and it came out how i wanted.
This comment is actually incorrect because in the video Mike using the box which determines the peak value in the "amplify" feature. That would effectively do the same thing as the "Normalize" function.
@@Jen0va52 Actually, your wrong, it doesn't do the same thing, if you use the Audacity 'normalize' effect with the same settings(as far as they can be the same)as the 'amplify' feature the audio is very different. If you want to argue with this you can, but I use Audacity daily, and I tested each feature with the same piece of audio in separate recordings just to get my barrings when I first started.
For those looking for the EQ, Audacity has been split it into two effects, the "Graphic EQ" and the "Filter Curve" effect. The "Filter Curve" effect is pretty much the same as the "Draw" mode of the old EQ effect
thanks for letting us know
Thanks for sharing this!
perfect ty
Oh my god! I thought my mic was broken, because it sounded like complete garbage, but now it is great! Thanks so much!
Hello, this is me just leaving a quick comment, how does it look?
it requires :
1.EQ
2.Compressor
3.Normalization
xD
@ pcfaulkner You did that deliberately, didn't you? After listening to the voice in the video, it is now stuck in my head. And now that same voice in my head is the one reading your comment.
This really mad me laugh LMAO
lolllll
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Oldie but goodie tutorial. I'd given up on the built in Audacity compressor but that sounds like what would work. Also your clean voice sounds natural which I appreciate. Too many podcast hosts have a boomy exaggerated tone I'd expect from a $10 microphone an inch from my lips yet they have expensive studio setups. "Hey, I'm a podcast video star. I've cranked up the bass to "James Earl Jones" so you'll never forget I have a (SM7B / RE-20) and you don't."
Great professionalism in your videos, which i had that setup too. :D And also, nice overall channel.
Your original voice is great plus a professional mic. You do not even need any processing.
Thanks
‼UPDATE FOR AUDACITY USERS ‼- I have made it easier than ever before to work with tricky audio. My brand new Audacity presets are out now. One click to GREAT sound :) Check them out here: mrc.fm/presets This is a great way for you to support my channel too 🙏🙏🙏
I would love if you had an audacity course for singers :)
There are videos on creating sing jingles which may be of help to you
Thanks for the vid. I was using pro tools for podcast. but I have had this program for years. I started messing around with last week for podcast use. And it rocks! Your videos have helped me get my voice sounding killer!!
Appreciate it!
Great to hear :)
That fake smile at the end tho
that's the smile of a winner
@@ifell3 lmao
The face I make when I log into my bank account and see my IRS refund.
if your mic has a general grainy texture of white noise in the background I'd recommend doing a noise reduction FIRST! Other than that, amazing tutorial!
Great tip!
wow soo nice! i tried it with my recording and it now sounds cleaner!!! :D thank you!!!
#Harry: After trying for several years to learn to singer I came across Bens Singer Blog and it seems to be the top home study method (google it if you're interested)
Thanks Mike! It was great to see your face again in the search results ;) and the audio for my new webinar sounds much better! I wish I had a Bane-like mask with these filters to make my voice sound this cool all the time!!
I watched probably 10 different videos showing how to correct audio in Audacity and Mike's video was the one which worked for me. Don't stop here! Everyone's mic is different, and you can keep tweaking and previewing to see what sounds best to you. Personally, I added the "Noise Reduction" filter on top of the steps in the video to get rid of background noise from my central air/computer fans.
This is the best video on audacity tutorials
Thank you so much for your kind words I'm glad you found the tutorial helpful!
Thanks!!! That has made my voice acting submissions a WHOLE lot cleaner!
This was very useful. I was looking for a way to eliminate voice meeter's live voice manipulation which required running a camera and a second separate recording on the PC; pain in the butt. Now I can just record on the camera and post-process the audio using audacity and I think it sounds at least as good if not better.
Sound like one of those dodgy Radio 1 DJs from the 1970s!
All radio DJs sound like that even today lol
Thank you! You changed my life in 4 minutes! I was looking for the EXACT tutorial.
Awesome
Not to beat a dead horse, but the Normalize function in Audacity is actually called "Normalize", not "Amplify". It's right there in your drop-down menu at 2:09.
Thanks very much for making this video. It has helped improve the narration for my videos.
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For those that can fine Equalization EQ... in 2.4.2 it is called Filter Curve EQ
Thanks for sharing 👍
I tried other tutorials before and I wasn't happy with the results until I found yours... perfect! Thank you so much!
Thanks so much for the lovely feedback :)
Glad I found this! What a difference it made to my vocal recordings! Thanks, Mike!
In my audacity I have some equalizer plug ins with real time audition. Somebody gave me a cassette, where they recorded a choir with cheap microphones, the sound had a bad midboost, sounded shrill. When I applied equalizer, it sounded way better, nearly like a professional recording.
Excellent, equalization can work wonders for improving less than ideal recordings.
should make comparrison everytime you change something..
The *AUDACITY* of this man is insane
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Getting good audio has been a big challenge for me and you solved it on 1 video. That's amazing, thank you so much.
This was absolutely helpful .
Thank you mike!
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Thanks for the awesome tutorial. For someone with very limited knowledge on audio, this was a huge help!
Thanks for these nice tips!
You’re welcome
Simple and to the point. Thank you! It made a huge difference in my recordings!
Brilliant 👌
thanks sir..it works very well...
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Thanks a lot for uploading this. This did magic to my voice commentary.
Hello, try to do my effect. In Audacity you can also do the Scary voice effect, i.e. from the horror genre. I did the test and it turned out amazing. Just record your voice through a good microphone or enter text in Text-to-Speech. Select a processing piece, it's best to use the PaulStretch effect. The fragment cannot be too short. It is worth leaving a fragment of a normal voice to make it more interesting. I added 2 effects: strengthening and echo. This fragment made by PaulStretch can be half-improved and, if you want, the final fragment can be improved by adding the "repeat" effect". I can't add my mp3 test to the comment. Best regards
Awesome video ! It's funny because I was looking for this EXACT type of video on youtube but there are so many, so many that comes from non professional... And I was hoping you'd make one as a professional ! I followed your videos on How to sound better with Audition, but I also was looking for Audacity, now you made it clean and simple, thanks Mike ! Keep up the good work !
Great tutorial! 🥳
Thank you so much! I'm glad you found the tutorial helpful! 🎉
Compare:
Before: 0:38
After: 3:08
I dunno, sounds worse. Has kind of an annoying ring to it
Louder and easier to hear? 🔥
@@Pady9977 try comparing 0:38 to 3:25 instead, this guy put the wrong timestamp.
Boruto Shippuden just more louder lmao
Thanks a lot Mike, Great video.
Look out for new Audacity videos releasing soon
Why would you use Amplify and not the Normalize effect in Audacity?
Good catch. Yep, my eyes automatically homed in on the "Normalize" effect in the pull-down menu... and then he went and selected "Amplify". I'm also asking why. Serious question.
Carlo Castillo
They do the same thing with the settings he used. I don’t know why he didn’t use the normalize buttons though.
VibeReviews That's why I asked. I was seriously curious if there was a reason to use one over the other.
I just guessed and here I have the exact makeshift technique I use for my voice.
Except I use fast lookahead limiter from Audacity LADSPA and yeah, I started normalizing it lately. But, I'd rather use some around 8 Hz HPF (Usually GLAME Butterworth) to flatten those Random DC Offsets once and for all, since my mic is just a gaming headset mic, probably a simple electret condenser mic through a dirt cheap USB soundcard that surprisingly gives a good enough gain.
Thanks for this video. Helped me a lot with fixing the audio in my Boya Lavalier mic's. :)
sounds good, you might have touched a bit on noise removal as well but over all you helped me
this is awsome... i wonder whats the science behind a compressor and a equalizator and why it does what it does ...
An equaliser is just simply volume controls for different frequencies within the audio. A compressor is simply an automated volume control that acts on the audio when it goes above the level you set as the threshold.
This guy sounds like the robot voice in MLG
Thank you! Quick and effective!
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Which microphone do you used in this video?
Hamza aslam Exactly! Was wondering the same!
Got any Good microphones for such videos?
USe the blue microphone
Heil PR 40
Very much important, thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much. It was very informative, weighty and highly applicable. Thankful to you for taking the time to condense this all into under 4 minutes, but giving a lesson that'll last for ages, with its simplicity and clarity of explanation.
Thanks for the tips, just used them on my new video!
One basic rule is violated here. There is no "noise removal". That's the first step to be done. He goes straight to equalizer. hmmm. Also for noise removal you need to record a minimum of 3 seconds long silence. Not good tips here.
Liloh Rydstrom but some mic have the static noise. It's better to remove that using noise reduction.
noise reduction is bad and has the ability to completely destroy okay-ish sounding audio. if you can't hear background noise without really having to actively try and find it, you probably don't need noise reduction.
>"comment anonymously" >uses picture of herself >¯\_(ツ)_/¯
thanks for the novel but no one asked tho
Interesting. I will try that. Thanks a million.
Hope it works out for you
@@MikeRussell it didn't change the tone of my voice much but it's a tiny quieter than my normal voice.
Compression may make your voice sound like a real man's voice, but it is *extremely* tiring to listen to. It's ok for a promo or a commercial because nobody really listens to those anyway, but don't use it as your default gadget to fix something that you think is wrong in your voice, because all you are doing is making your audience tune out. It sounds like crap on in the long run, so learn howto speak, then fix *mistakes* in post. Don't use post as a magic box that "makes" your voice.
vinny142 or you could just chill out because people can do what they want, you clearly wouldnt know a whole lot considering you have 5 subs, no videos
Yeah because someones youtube channel means he knows nothing about audio business
Maq M mainly, hes acting as if he is like pewdiepie...
Maq M pretending he knows everything about audio, if he did maybe he could make a video about it if he knows how everything fucking works
Pewdiepie isn't the God of UA-cam audio. That's kinda dumb to insinuate.
thanks for your nice video..🙂
Thank you
Thank you for this great tip, Mike. It really helped to improve the sound of my recording. The menu wordings are a bit different in the latest version of Audacity, as well as the interface. Equalization is now split into Filter Curve & Graphic EQ.
Audacity has changed a lot since this video was made. There’ll be new videos coming in the future
Man you've helped me with this, that's a subscribe from me.
Thanks Jesse.
Perfect tutorial, thanks man.
In Audacity 2.3.3, the Equalization effect has been replaced by two new effects:
Filter Curve and Graphic EQ
Thanks for sharing
The title doesn't fit your voice, its allready great :/
Most of these made my voice weird, but thank you for the video, great way to get started in playing with these features.
He has a studio and he's using audacity 😂 Like have a ferrari but riding a bike...
Dumbo hes trying to show us
Lil Gasp goofy
pfff you all are dumbs, learn to get a joke
Not only is this perfect for all the folks who don't have professional tools, but the theory is the same no matter what, AND Audacity is so dang convenient I find myself using it for audio book reading all the time now and my grand+$ Cakewalk Sonar suite with all the extras sits unused until I need low-latency ASIO for synthesizer work.
@@HorcruxGaming hes not joking though... you cant say take a joke when someone isnt joking
Thank you! This is awesome.
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Way cool! Thank You 🙏
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Thank you!
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you saved my time mike
Yay!
Great one bro
Thank you
thanks so much!♥
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This is the one of the best mp3 editing software i ever used, especially for beginners.
I recommend this software 👍
Very cool, thank you.
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thanks!! really helpful! :D
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@@MikeRussell (=D
Nice video, Mike
Thanks
thank you, video is great
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Thank youuu!!
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Hey mike! you are awesome...this little steps transformed my sound. Just wondering if you could help make a messed up microphone sound it's best on audacity ?...thanks
If you can't find "Equalization" tab, don't worry - In the new version of Audacity it's been renamed to "Filter Curve EQ".
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Great, thank you
Thanks Beli
when you said "normalize", you accidentally went to "amplify". "normalize" suits better for the vocal takes on Audacity. I don't always use Amplify in my vocal takes when I make my voice all better.
for an accident, he sure explained what he was doing with words a lot
Wow this is like magic, thanks!
Thanks for that
You're welcome
dear sir, i have been using audacity for the last 7-8 years. i have recently updated it to version 3.1.2. i have been using karaoke tracks available in you tube and other channels and record instrumental songs played in my key board and upload to my channel in you tube. i have been playing the instrumental tune in the same pitch of the karaoke track. But for the last 2-3 days, audacity is recording my instrumental track up by 2 pitches than the actual pitch in which i play the tone. i am not able to understand why it is doing it. My audacity project rate (Hz) is 44100 and i changed it to 44800 but in vein.... please help me how to enable audacity to record in the pitch which i play my key board and not in different pitch.....
Audacity will record exactly what's put in to it, this is not something I've heard of before
your so cool ... Thank You So Much...!
What's the best way to give myself a "radio voice" while direct-monitoring a podcast? I used to be able to do this with a mixing console, and a decent mic. (not my mixing console, otherwise I'd still have it) Trying to direct monitor with a laptop results in latency delay, so do I need to use a physical mixer? I don't mind using one. They're fun.
thanks !
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In Audacity you have both Amplify and Normalise..what's the difference actually?
Mike . . Thank you So very much for your tutorials!!! There are many voices out there in the cyber wilderness and I find that you are an oasis in a storm of Podcast tutors!!! You are always very clear and stick to the points!!! Keep it up!!!!
Thank you so much for the awesome feedback, that is so lovely to hear 😃
Thank you
My pleasure!