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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)

For anyone with Audacity 2.3.3 thad doesn't have Equalization: It's called Filter curve in the effects menu!

That is what I love about people making the effort to help us. 3 minuted of my time and an hour saved. Thank you!!!

1:10 Equalizer 2:21 Amplify 2:39 Compressor 3:22 Reduce Amplify

*For anyone looking for comparison:* 0:39 Before Edit 3:25 After Edit

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

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.

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omg you have the best voice! Go you! : ) new sub

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.

Getting good audio has been a big challenge for me and you solved it on 1 video. That's amazing, thank you so much.

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

‼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 🙏🙏🙏

Great professionalism in your videos, which i had that setup too. :D And also, nice overall channel.

This is the one of the best mp3 editing software i ever used, especially for beginners. I recommend this software 👍

Needed the most, thanks!!

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.

Glad I found this! What a difference it made to my vocal recordings! Thanks, Mike!

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!!

Thanks for the awesome tutorial. For someone with very limited knowledge on audio, this was a huge help!

U missed noise reduction sir

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)

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!!!!

i love this.So simple and straight forward

Thanks a lot for uploading this. This did magic to my voice commentary.

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 !

Thank you for a very useful and easy-to-follow tutorial. I had some sound files that needed their quality improving as I'm using them for a listening test tomorrow. This worked very well - thanks mate!

I subscribed to your channel and watched this video in particular via recommendation from Nick Nimmin during one of his live streams. Boy am I glad I did! I mean your voice sounds a little better after the tweaks you did in the video but MY voice sounds worlds more professional! It may be part of the syndrome where we all think our own voices sound different when recorded than they do in real time, but these tweaks are so easy to remember after doing them once and made such a big difference for me. Thanks again!

For those that can fine Equalization EQ... in 2.4.2 it is called Filter Curve EQ

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.*

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!

Hi thanks really clear and helped in improving the quality of my later videos on computer tutoring.

sounds good, you might have touched a bit on noise removal as well but over all you helped me

Simple and to the point. Thank you! It made a huge difference in my recordings!

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.

Amazing man! I was searching how to make my sound better but only this was the one most helpful. Thanks Mike !

Thanks!!! That has made my voice acting submissions a WHOLE lot cleaner!

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 for this video. Helped me a lot with fixing the audio in my Boya Lavalier mic's. :)

Great stuff Mike. I have subscribed.

wow soo nice! i tried it with my recording and it now sounds cleaner!!! :D thank you!!!

Perfect tutorial, thanks man.

I have just begun to use audacity and it's really awesome. You can do almost anything to your voice with it

lockdown got me here in the year 2020...but thank God for Mike for all these great tips! Thanks Mike!

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.

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.

Awesome quick tutorial! Thank you!

This is such a helpful video, thank you!!

Hello, this is me just leaving a quick comment, how does it look?

So should I generally apply these adjustments before or after using Effects like Noise Reduction? Or does it not matter

This video has brought me tremendous value, you don't even know! Thank you!

Which microphone do you used in this video?

That fake smile at the end tho

Great post, thanks Mr. Russell!

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.

Why would you use Amplify and not the Normalize effect in Audacity?

should make comparrison everytime you change something..

This works very well. Thanks!

Thanks very much for making this video. It has helped improve the narration for my videos.

Sound like one of those dodgy Radio 1 DJs from the 1970s!

Compare: Before: 0:38 After: 3:08

This helped so much. Thank you!

Thank you! You changed my life in 4 minutes! I was looking for the EXACT tutorial.

This guy sounds like the robot voice in MLG

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.

Unbelievable! The video has 6 years and you still answer commentaries. You are definitely a good youtuber, and thanks for the video it helped me a lot.

thanks man..it's very helpful ❤

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.

The title doesn't fit your voice, its allready great :/

Great, really appreciate this. Helps me out a lot!

Thanks great work 👍👍

He has a studio and he's using audacity 😂 Like have a ferrari but riding a bike...

Awesome! Thank you, Mike!

This actually helps a whole lot thank you very much

GREAT WORK,EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED.

excellent tips I wonder if we would apply the same plugins / settings to the singing / vocals, not just speech

Thanks a lot Mike, Great video.

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

This was very, very helpful. Thank you!

Thanks man!

your videos helped me, thank you so much

Thank you so much! Informative and straight to the point!

Mike, thanks so much for this! I was on the verge of pulling my hair out! You have saved me, and my work good sir.

I was literally considering sending the audio for my fiction reading podcast to someone to edit it before I found this video! All day I've been watching tutorials and trying things out, but I think my issue was I was stacking too much on to the audio. It came out too bassy and not like my voice at all. Once I cleared everything besides the declicker and tried this tutorial on it, it sounds great! Thank you so much :)

quick to the point...thanks

You're a bloody legend Mike

Thanks, that was really helpful!

thank you so much! i love how easy and to the point this video is compared to others.

does it matter if do these steps in a different order?

I am curious where did you buy the square covering you have on the boom arm showing your logo? I am interested in buying some for my studio. Thank you.

This has helped improve the quality of my podcast tremendously! Thank you so much! It is so easy too!

Thanks MIke! Subscribed!

Am i missig something about setting up my mic volume.. i am a soft speaker but im talking with my face close to the mic but the wave form does not chage much, very little. without doing anything i sont like talking from a room next to me..

Thanks for these nice tips!

May I please ask -- when you grabbed your mic & moved the boom over to turn around and face the camera -- did you have it muted or are some apparatus just that quiet? I'm thinking it was muted but didn't know for sure, as I've always had budget equipment.

I think I love you, thanks for those great tips :)

Hi,MikeCan you explain how should one send ones files with music or voice to others?

Mike, enjoyed your tutorial. Can you explain the "Normalize" feature in Audacity? I think it's similar to "Amplify", but it must do something differently otherwise why would it be a separate tool? I see someone else mentioned it too. Thanks!

Thank you that was very helpful.