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.

#audacity #audiomixing #audiomastering

0:00 Tutorial Start
0:08 Check out my Audacity Presets
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
5:28 Check out my Audacity course!

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[bryerstonewebdatamedia]

The guys from down under are simply the best at what they do and is so good at helping others understand how to execute a particular skillful task. I learned Snappa from an Aussie; I learned Video intro from an Aussie, I learned Conva from an Aussie, by the way the company is run by an Aussie, and now I have just learnt one of the most important skill for a recording artist to learn, as you know, all we do as recording artist is just go to the studio and laydown vocal tracks, but as a result of you, Mike Russell, the best in the business, I am now able to sing my own songs, mix and master my own songs and create my own instrumental and mix and master it within a song. My gosh; this is a skill that I was always wishing I had; now, I do. I will upload the song that I made as a result of Mike Russell's amazing video tutorial. May the good heavens provide you with everlasting fortunes; Thanks for a life-changing Audacity video tutorial, Mikel.

[Ali-wii]

thank you for specific things like how loudness normalization for a podcast needs to be

[CorkElectric]

Yes
... getting back into recording after a decade... Using audacity forever and totally forgot Thank you for your everything you're doing here... There is a lot of audacity information out there but yawning is not my purpose... You Sir managed to keep me awake....

I appreciate it... Thank you.

[loxdixon]

Honestly the best tutorial for someone just starting out in home recording. Thank you for making it so easy!

[HeartAndSoulEmpowerment]

You mixed and mastered it but didn’t play the finished spot 😒

[NourAllam]

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?

[shadowmixx]

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.

[FBA_AllTHEWAY]

Nice to see you illustrating things in Audacity!.. thanks

[LetondAtreides]

Wonder what you do to support sound across different devices.

[worldwideoffline]

when i added the last effect it really changed the levels like now hitting almost to 0 dbs and extremely spikey.... why? what did i do wrong?

[Alexandra-qy]

Hi, Mike, you say this is good for podcasting, right? Does the same apply to narrating audiobooks (including but not limited to dialogues)? Thanks!

[NoelLewis-mqic]

I've been using Musescore 4 to compose symphonic songs for a musical and I now want to use Audacity to mix and master. Would you recommend uploading each instrument as a standalone track, mixing and mastering and then adding vocals? Thanks for your video! Gave me great ideas!

[FlightGangDex]

Was the audio already mixed at first? Because I can’t get that quality in a raw verse

[komamusic]

Thanks, very concise and to the point! Helped me a lot!

[daveymichael]

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.

[arpi]

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

[UtahJobSeeker]

Top of the day to you Mike! What are the best settings for Voice over in AUDACITY

[Krazykarllsound]

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

[charlieDtheradioguy]

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?

[Manupfashionstyles]

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.