i have an MP3 file and the drum beats are far too loud.
can audacity fix this problem?
simple instructions required!
thanks all
win 7/64
No. As a general rule, you can’t take a song apart into instruments. So we can’t split apart the drums from the rest of the song. If we could, the rest of the process is no problem.
That and MP3 files are awful for production because the sound quality goes down each time you edit them.
You might try the compressor tool. Effect > Compressor. If the drums are the major part of the show, that may be able to take the volume down a little and not affect the music.
Went to a concert with your camcorder? If you did, you’ll have multiple problems. Very loud drums and bass overload the microphone and cause distortion and holes in the rest of the instruments.
Koz
Thanks Koz
made the audio using a built in sound in pinnacle studio 12
problem is… i have no idea how to set the compressor. but nothing seemd to work.
could not find it in the help files.
also tried hard limiter … but again random stabs did not work!
really i just need to limit the volume spikes - i guess.
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file attached - it is the drum beat ALL the way thru!
I can’t help it, either. They’re too integrated into the structure of the song. You are a prime candidate for Overdubbing/Multitrack. You do the song in two passes. the first pass is without the drums and the second pass, you put the drum track in. That gives you drums on their own track and you make them as loud and soft as you wish.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/manual/man/tutorial_recording_multi_track_overdubs.html
Once you get it set up and working, you’ll want to do all your songs that way. The ability to remix in post production is gold.
Koz
thanks
but pinnacle wont do that.
surely in audacity there is a way of limiting all the volume spikes???
“Fast Lookahead Limiter” (it’s in the LADSPA plug-in pack: http://audacityteam.org/download/plugins )
Input Gain: 3
Limit: -8
Release time: 1.0
Making the effect much stronger than this has a bad effect on the remaining sound.
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do i just click the exe file and then audacity can find them?
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Double click the .exe file and the plug-ins will be “installed” (extracted and copied to your hard drive).
Restart Audacity and the new plug-ins should be found automatically. They will appear below the dividing line in the menus.
The plug-in pack is a 3rd party product (not made by Audacity) so a few of them don’t work in Audacity.
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That effect is going to be perfect!
thanks VERY much
now i have 135 effects - is there a manual on what the heck they do AND how to do it!
- Amplify…
- Auto Duck…
- BassBoost
- Change Pitch…
- Change Speed…
- Change Tempo…
- Click Removal…
- Compressor…
- Echo…
- Equalization…
- Fade In
- Fade Out
- Invert
- Leveller…
- Noise Removal…
- Normalize…
- Nyquist Prompt…
- Phaser…
- Repair
- Repeat…
- Reverse
- Sliding Time Scale…Pitch Shift…
- Truncate Silence…
- 4 x 4 pole allpass…
- Aliasing…
- Allpass delay line, cubic splint interpolation…
- Allpass delay line, linear interpolation…
- Allpass delay line. noninterpolating
- AM pitchshifter…
- Artificial latency…
- Audio Divider (Suboctave Generator)…
- Auto phaser…
- Barrys Satan Maximiser,…
- Bode frequency shifter (CV)…
- Bode frequency shifter…
- Chebyshev distortion…
- Clip Fix…
- Comb delay line, cubic splint interpolation…
- Comb delay line linear interpolation…
- Comb delay line noninterpolating…
- Comb Filter…
- Comb Splitter…
- Constant Signal Generator…
- Cross Fade In
- Cross Fade Out
- Crossfade (4 outs)…
- Crossfade…
- Crossover distortion…
- DC Offset Remover
- Decimator…
- Declipper
- Delay…
- DeIayorama
- Diode Processor…
- Di EQ (mono)…
- Di EQ…
- Di flanger…
- Dyson compressor
- Exponential signal decay…
- Fast Lookahead limiter…
- Fast overdrive…
- Flanger…
- Foldover distortion…
- Fractionally Addresed Delay Line…
- Frequency tracker…
- Gate…
- Giant flange…
- Glame Bandpass Analog Filter,.
- Glame Bandpass Filter…
- GLAME Buttenvocth Highpass…
- GLAME Butterwoith Lowpass…
- Glame Butterwcrth X-over Filter…
- Glame Highpass Filter…
- Glame Lovpass Filter…
- Gong beater…
- Gong model…
- GVerb.,.
- Hard Limiter…
- Harmonic generator…
- High Pass Filter…
- Higher Quality Pitch Scaler…
- Hilbert transformer
- Impulse convolver…
- Inverter
- Karaoke…
- L/C/R Delay,…
- LFO Phaser…
- Low Pass Filter…
- LS Filter…
- Mags Notch Filter…
- Matrix Spatialiser…
- Matrix: MS to Stereo…
- Matrix: Stereo to MS
- Modulatable delay…
- Mono to Stereo splitter
- Multiband EQ…
- Multivoice Chorus…
- Notch Filter…
- Pitch Scaler…
- Plate reverb…
- Pointer cast distortion…
- Rate shifter…
- Retro Flanger…
- Reverse Delay (5s max)…
- Ringmod with LFO…
- Ringmod with two inputs.
- SC1…
- SC2…
- SC3…
- SC4 mono…
- SC4…
- SE4…
- Signal sifter…
- Simple amplifier…
- Simple delay line cubic spline interpolation…
- Simple delay line, linear interpolation…
- Simple delay line, noninterpolating…
- Single band parametric…
- Sinus wavewrapper…
- Smooth Decimator,…
- State Variable Filter…
- Step Demuxer…
- Surround matrix encoder
- Tape Delay Simulation…
- Transient mangler…
- Tremolo…
- Triple band parametric with shelves…
- Valve rectifier…
- Valve saturation…
- Vocal Remover (for center-panned vocals)…
- Vocoder…
- VyNil (Vinyl Effect)…
- Wave shaper…
- Wave Terrain Oscillator
- z-1
A note. We urge people not to back up a large truck (lorry) and dump ton lots of effects, plugins and filter into Audacity. One sure way to kill Audacity out of the gate is to load an effect it can’t handle.
“See that huge pile of effects? One of them is bad. Have a happy day.”
That and Audacity, unless you prevent it, tries to do an index of all your software and you could be there until next Thursday waiting for it to go down the list and manage everything it finds.
Koz
thanks all
The pack of LADSPA effects has been put together by Steve Harris.
There is a limited amount of information about each of those effects on his web-site. Unfortunately his website appears to be down at the moment, but here’s the address: http://plugin.org.uk/
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