Hello all.
Is there an automatic effect that will increase the volume of a recording when our preacher steps away from the mic? We desperately need wireless mics.
Otherwise I am manually going in there and amplifying each time he stepped away. I was thinking there is a tool out there that would raise the lowest peeks automatically to match the highest peeks.
thanks!
Sal
Our favourite tool for this kind of job is “Chris’s dynamic compressor” http://pdf23ds.net/software/dynamic-compressor/
Scroll down to “Download and Use”. You want the “plug-in source” (read the instructions carefully).
Once installed in Audacity’s plug-ins folder it will appear in the Effect menu, below the line, as “Compress Dynamics”. Select a portion of the audio where it changes from soft to loud or vice versa and try different settings (Undo-ing in between tries) until you get what you want. Undo the final try, select the entire track and apply the effect one more time.
– Bill
Would a “lapel microphone” be practical?
thank you so much Bill. that worked! need to keep tweaking but it works good.
–Sal-
That’s great but is there any help files?
Help files for using the tool would be the responsibility of Chris Capel.
Do you need help generally with using effects in Audacity?
– Bill
Chris has a full write-up on his web page, and there are brief instructions at the top of the plug-in interface when you run it.
General help on installing plug-ins in Audacity are here: http://audacityteam.org/download/plugins