For fellow audacity users in 2020: Hard limiter is now "hidden" inside the "Limiter" effect. Simply click "Limiter" and choose "Hard limit" from the drop-down menu (the default is soft limit). That's hard limiter for you. Now you just have to follow the instructions in the video

Use “Hard Limiter” 2:29 Amplify 4:06 Add an echo 5:15 Use “GVerb” 7:52 Recap 12:39

Another tip that works really well..your missing three components for good quality. If you add compressor effect and click the box that says compress based on peaks then hit ok. Then add the equalization effect with the recommended settings then add the normalization effect with recommended settings your vocals will sound amazing trust me I record music and use audacity and it sounds almost exactly like studio quality vocals. Give it a try and lmk what you think.

Gverb has been replaced in audacity with REVERB, press this then click MANAGE then choose vocal 1 2 or small room etc for easy settings for beginners.

Why does your commentary audio sound worse than what your teaching?

this was the only tutorial that actually made my voice sound better, so i thank you for that! keep up the videos man!

Thanks for this tutorial! It's real tough putting your singing voice out there but we're all learners here!

"amidibly"

This is a really must see tutorial for youtubers. You go in depth about this process, which i did the same :D Keep the good work

Thank you GS, that was a great tutorial. I really learned something today from you. Thanks

Really helpful. Thank you. Now with these little tricks I can somewhat enhance my vocals.

oh my gosh thank you, this is the most helpful video i've seen so far... thank you!!! :))

really really helpful , thank you mahn

This has helped me so much with my future covers! Thank you!

am i the only one doesn't like the audio quality after he edited the audio? it doesn't sound clear and it's like he is blowing air through the microphone but hopefully those settings could help my audio on audacity hopefully

That song was slick fire though.

Great tutorial! Thank you!!

"Admittebly"

Oh my gosh, this tutorial was actually easy to understand. You took quite a long time explaining everything, but I could follow along with what you were saying. Thank you for the video.

This was very helpful thanks for this vid and your time.

Just my two cents...I applied the Limiter and the Amplifier AFTER I messed with Echo and Reverb. Reason being if you do that before, once you apply Echo and Reverb that messes with the equalization of the track and you will typically see the up and down come back as well as a overall harshness in the sound again. The sound is MUCH smoother if you do limiter and amplifier afterwards. Also, for the Amplifier, I only did about 0.4, because again, if you amplify it too much, it will end up sounding really harsh still. I have a naturally loud voice, but still, I think this works best, but of course every voice and every recording is going to be different. I am singing my own songs and typically I'm personally going to want a softer sound that doesn't sound harsh and will end up sounding smooth. So if that's what you're going for, I recommend you try it this way instead.

THANK YOU! I'll make sure to credit you and your tutorial when I post my first cover. thanks again

This literally saved me from my disappointment from my sucky mic :D

Very clear, concise info. Thank you

You earned yourself a sub, nice job mate.

Thanks, it really helped.

Thanks a lot!! It really helped me

Thank you for that video!

Very useful guidance

For those having trouble finding the GVerb, Hard Limiter, or any other plugin or effect within Audacity, take a look at my most recent tutorial showing you how to find missing effects: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/beCXfcpy066bZac.html

thank you so much it helped me a lot I love your tutorials

Very helpful thank you

Thank You very Much I will try out

thanks! i worked out a lot. i have a good voice its just i dont like hearing it haha

Love those tips thank you

thanks this is really helpful

Really helpful! Thanks!

Dude back away from the mic.. you're too close

Thank you so much !!!!

THANKS!!! THE FIRST ONE THAT WORKS!!

Thanks it helped alot

Thanks Man, Im doing this myself now. And This REALLY Helped Me! Thanks ever so much Buddy (and your background music helps my attention span too, :) Thanks)

very helpful. thank you very much.

so helpful! thanks man

whats some good options if u record music with audacity with a C0u1 usb mic?

By putting the hard limiter on your track so high, you've already clipped the sounds pretty significantly. You'd probably be better off at a -3 or -4 db range, normalizing, and compressing.

this video was very helpful..thank u very much

I have Reverb instead of Gverb in my Audacity and they have different names with a few name setting in common. What are the Settings PLEEEAAASE!!!! Thanks

Thank you bro🙏🏾❤️😇🙌🏾

Thank you so much. Excellent tutorial

Very helpful, Thank you!

Thanks alot mate!

Thanks for the tutorial ..

It would be good to do the hard limit and amplitfy to your instrumental! Thanks for the vid!

you have a nice relaxing voice!

Great tutorial. Very professionally delivered. Thanks.

Thank you, this Helped.

Awesome work buddy! Subscribed and liked !

Very detailed, great info. THANKS

This was really helpful thanks man!

Should project rate be changed to 48000 since that's my recording and final render setting?

I never thought I would be 65 years old and learn so much from a hip hop style singer, but I was wrong. Thank you for your help.

Thank you for this :)

Thanks for explaining!

Wow. Learn alot

this was super helpful thx

THANKS FOR THE TUTORIAL.

thank you buddy :) you help a lot

Very informative.

Liked & subscribed. Thank you :)

Great Video

Thank you. 👍

very valuable steps, makes a very big difference, my humble opinion: you must have used a normal mic for demonstration , that might have probably made few people skip right after hearing the first 5 seconds thinking its not enough while expecting a high end studio narrator results. so I say about this -to all of us- the hardware choice is the big chunk of the pie for a better results , the software enhancement is also essential but do not rise your expectations if using a low end mic.

Very true Thank you ..

TBH Honestly You are Really Good

Awesome work man! You have some awesome tutorials! You just got new sub. XD

Thanks for the guide, really learned a lot. Could you perhaps make a tutorial on enhancing a piece of audio in a chorus?

Thanks, I'll try it out

thank you man great vid

how can I do a same effect by using reverb instead of GVerb? and also do you recommend that I first normalize my track before I mix it?

Real informative. I took notes. Appreciate it.

Thanks for a great video

Nice info bro👍👍👍

its so helpfull and easy understandable the way you saying...thank you lots

I’ll check it out tomorrow

thanks..great its helpful..

thank you so much man :D

My version of Audacity doesn't feature GVerb...the reverb menu has some different options from the gverb menu; what values should I use to match with your ideal GVerb settings?

.1 and .2 for the echo is much better.

which version is your audacity?

how did you get the music only of the song? have you a site or a tool that can give my the music only without the singer voice so I could do like what you did here?

this is gold

Hi there On Audacity now it has reverb instead of gverb and the controls are slightly different, what would be the settings on it? Thanks John

The hard limiter at -7 makes my audio sound really really distorted lol. My problem is actually pretty simple.. my vocals always sound unpolished. And by vocals I literally mean vocals. I bought a Blue Yeti because I thought those unclean sounds when I sing "a" etc came from my mic, but the problem persists. It just doesn't sound as smooth as in other covers I listen to. What can I do against it?

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Thank you thank you thank you so much for this tutorial!!!!!!!! :D My voice sounds A LOT BETTER with the GVerb :) My microphone is not professional, but it is pretty decent. It's a USB microphone- CAD brand. It works awesome. The only thing I don't like about the GVerb is I still gotta clean up the background noise it raised up- the echo effect does that too lol. But I guess that is to be expected :p Again THANK YOU SO MUCH :) I have a quick question though- could you please explain to me how does the tail voice work with your voice exactly? Does it increase the pitch or does it have a different effect?

My issue is that in the low dB areas it seams the Noise is Boosted(piano) any ideas? It seams like Audacity is boosting the noise for some strange reason.. the same noise is not present before or after then recording, so the noise itself is a lot lower

If you really want to sound good you gotta get good tracks in the first place but even then theres a lot of processing profesionals do to make it sound perfect, if youre gonna scream into a really cheap mic then don't expect good results, unless thats what you want it to sound like LOL it was a good tutorial to show how to clean up a worst case scenario good job

When I use to record voice in drop of a trance and play, it cant be heard. Do you have any solution for that? And what is the function of 'GAIN' option ?

One question from me: How do you make your recordings stereo tracks and not mono? Mine are coming out mono and it won't let me change to stereo...also, is there even a noticeable difference between stereo and mono for this?