Audacity Mobile phone sound

Hello Everyone, just wondering how you guys save your recordings let’s say for YouTube :grin:my recordings sound awesome on my computer, but if I listen on my phone it’s awful. Is there any way to get this mega sound on my phone..the ads are always have a great sound. How do i get that right. Appreciated :+1:

From the tiny little phone speaker? Headphones or in-ears should be fine…

For the speaker you can try a High-Pass Filter, maybe at 200Hz to kill the bass. The tiny speaker can’t reproduce bass but the bass can cause distortion or limit the volume.

And you can try the Limiter (1)

When you’re done with everything else, run the Normalize or Amplify effect to “maximize” the volume.

(1) Limiting pushes-down the peaks without clipping/distortion. Then normally make-up gain is applied (or you Amplify or Normalize) to bring the overall volume up. It’s a kind of dynamic compression bringing everything toward the same loudness and it’s commonly used to make “everything constantly loud”. Of course it reduces dynamic contrast which can make music boring.

Hi DVDdoug,

Yes of course not the same sound like on the PC LoL, I know about the bass and it’s killing the overall sound, but even the reverb sounds different. I guess I have to figure it out by downloading the music to my phone and then eventually get there.

Thanks :+1:

Is the data you are sending to YouTube compressed? When they get it, they will compress it even further to satisfy their own standards for different devices.

Hi Wrecks0,

I’m a hobby singer and I’m using the real time effects, I only use the Master, Reverb and EQ , that’s pretty much what I’m using and I’m very happy with it on my computer. I don’t compress my music. The sound levels are normalised. Yes I know about YouTube and the Audio, many have complained but who cares LoL

Thanks mate :+1:

I think Wrecks0 is asking about file compression (MP3, etc.). It’s best to upload a lossless format because YouTube is going to re-compress it to their format (Opus, I think) and you can get two generations of lossy compression.

Virtually all commercial tracks are dynamically compressed to “win” The Loudness War. Without compression/limiting your homemade track won’t be as loud.

YouTube (and all of the other streaming services use loudness normalization (1) to make everything about the same volume but with the default settings they won’t boost into clipping so some tracks end-up quieter. And they don’t add dynamic compression so the quiet parts of your track will remain relatively quieter and the loud parts relatively louder.

You might try exporting as mono to see how that sounds on your computer. Some of the difference may be from listening in mono on the phone.

(1) In case you don’t know, loudness normalization is different from regular (peak) normalization.