Audacity Mixing and Mastering - Make Your Voice Sound Professional In Seconds!
Simple to follow audio mixing and mastering tips for Audacity users. Sound professional and follow the process that any good audio producer should know.
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0:00 Tutorial Start
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0:33 Getting started
1:12 Aligning elements in the mix
1:42 Adjusting gain
2:04 Export
2:40 Final mix
3:19 Limiter
3:52 Adding graphic EQ
4:22 Loudness normalisation
5:06 Export and wrap up
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Nice to see you illustrating things in Audacity!.. thanks
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Thanks for your kind words, I'm glad my tutorial helped you learn how to mix and master your vocals like a pro, and I'm excited to hear your finished song!
Thanks, very concise and to the point! Helped me a lot!
You're welcome, I'm glad I could help!
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Super cool. Thanks!
Thank you, this was very helpful !
Glad to have helped
Hmm, I was waiting for you to 'play' the differences in loudness between the two versions, but you never did. So once you finished mastering the second one, which one was in fact the louder of the two? Or did you not master it to be louder volume wise? Just curious.
You mixed and mastered it but didn’t play the finished spot 😒
Awesome video Thank you so much
Thank you
Great video. You mention these settings are suitable for uploads to podcast etc. What about if you wanted an actual dance track that was suitable for radio play alongside or say a master copy thst you wanted to be pressed onto vinyl. Are there any more suitable settings to use so my music sounds comparable with other similar dance tracks? For years I've always had issues with my music never sounding close to other finished tracks I hear. I can never seem to match them up in terms of eq etc. I have been using soundforge for some years but recently downloaded audacity.
Have a look at kzhead.info/sun/jb2udpaDa3ljo2w/bejne.html or kzhead.info/sun/dpWyk6t7oGd6pac/bejne.html
Hi Mike! Thanks for your tips. What about the option" Mix and render to a new track" instade of export the wave file and drag to the project again?
You could use that option. Very similar to bounce down to new track in Audition
Thank you.
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Top of the day to you Mike! What are the best settings for Voice over in AUDACITY
There are some videos on the channel on processing your voice to give a generic idea but every voice is different and it also depends on what the voice is being processed for. You may want to check out our courses which teaches all about processing voice courses.musicradiocreative.com/
Hello Mike, have been following you on this channel for sometime now and I really like the way you make your tutorials easy and straight forward. Please I want to offer audio editing service online as a freelancer. Can recommend any of your tutorials that can really get me started sir.
I'd have a look here if you're serious about making this a career / business courses.musicradiocreative.com/
thanks ,nice sir
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Mike thank you for this, I always, work in audacity to do everything even jingles, station IDs you name it. The one thing that I want to ask you, how do you keep everything quantised, because what happens with me, I do the same thing that you were doing the mixing, but the problem is, it will start off in sync, and then go out of sync later as the track is going on, how do I keep everything in sync if the music bed, and the vocals were not recorded in audacity?
The files used in this example were not recorded in Audacity and remain in sync. It could be that they're different sample rates or could be as simple as they're shifting in the edits.
Hi, Mike, you say this is good for podcasting, right? Does the same apply to narrating audiobooks (including but not limited to dialogues)? Thanks!
Yes, the techniques I demonstrate in this tutorial can also be applied when producing audiobooks and voiceovers. Just make sure to watch your noise floor levels and average RMS as those are important especially as it relates to ACX standards.
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Thank you so much for the positive feedback!
With your extensive knowledge of audio engineering, you might want to offer a tutorial on professional mixing-down of multitracks. As far as I can see, no one has offered an advanced tutorial. The challenge for me is to control the loudness of track parts as the song builds: for instance, as more instruments are added, fills/riffs tend to become buried. Those who work with simple projects where all the tracks are constant in volume require little skill in mixing down to stereo. But mixing down tracks where, say, a crescendo in a string section is added to harmonize with a synth brass line, the vocal can suffer. LUFS metering is unreliable to craft a balance between the lead voices and accompaniment, so that instruments remain audible when the production is played on a sound system with and without a subwoofer (or phone). I think some tips to expediently control volume, separation and especially unwanted "swelling" caused by compression to sustaining notes when mixing would be of interest to many.
Thank you for the detailed feedback and suggestion! Much appreciated!
there’s this other thing, that you always do too, the last time I saw you do it in Adobe addition, it was last year, it’s where you actually beat sink, three songs all together. My question is can you do the same thing in audacity, and make a jingle out of it, if possible can you please do a video on it?
A music imager? I would do this in Audition but it could be done in Audacity
Thanks. I am using a free version and I noticed my songs after mastering are not as loud and beefy as the ones my friend mastered using Pro tools
Mastering software like Audition or Pro Tools often has more advanced features and tools specifically designed for professional audio mastering, so it's expected to produce louder and more beefy results compared to the free version of Audacity.
@@MikeRussellI understand. Thabks
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@@MikeRussell np 😉 Mike.
Hello! I'm a visually impaired user trying to work with Audacity and another application as well. Due to my eyesight problems, I can't see the screen and what you showed. It seems pretty easy to master an audio file but sometimes I wasn't able to follow you. So please could you write to me in a nutshell how I should mix and master music? What tracks should I get rid of? I'm looking forward to your reply, Árpád
Check our blog on our website where there are a number of written articles.
@@MikeRussell Oh, okay, thank you so much!
Would like to see you with Reaper Software Package.
Absolutely, I'll definitely consider creating a video in Reaper.
Was the audio already mixed at first? Because I can’t get that quality in a raw verse
You can see the mix being done in the video
can your preset work with music recording
My presets are optimized for voiceover work, so they may not translate perfectly to music recording and mixing.
What is segue and say that I played learn to fly by foo fighters and then I skip ⏭ the track and then I hear 👂 the ending of learn to fly which is track 3 and then I hear 👂 the beginning of gimmie stitches what am I supposed to do what I did was that I listen 👂 to the whole entire track from start to finished and then the segue happend and then I was like wow 😯 that’s cool 😎 but I wanna know your answer is?
I'm not sure I understand the question 🤷♂️
@@MikeRussell I think 🧐 I listen 👂 to the whole entire track not skip ⏭ the track to be a exact when segue is happening.
@@lukeroberts3464 lol maybe try with less emojis and complete sentences
@@bojiden true.
I record cover songs on audacity. With tracks. Please show7how to blend vocals with tracks in audacity.
Sure! Good idea for the future - thanks!
I don't have the time shift tool in Audacity 3.1.2
The latest version at the time of this comment is 3.1.3 so I'd suggest an upgrade
Why would you choose copy/paste track instead of duplicate?
I am used to using copy and paste
@@MikeRussell Ah, ok. I just wondered if it had a different benefit over duplicate. It's great the app gives us options :)
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