Hello, I looked through and couldn’t find an answer to this. I am new to Audacity and love learning about it’s functions. I recording audio with background music, but I would like to extend the background music to an intro of it. I already exported and combined both tracks. Is there a way to do this? Also, at the very end, I have a little click I want to take out and that is in my voice section, but I am unsure if I can do this now that I combined and saved the two? Thank you for any help. I’m sorry if these are stupid questions.
I already exported and combined both tracks.
That’s the kiss of death. Audacity can’t split a mixed performance into individual voices, instruments, or sounds.
You exported the original voice as a backup WAV file, right?
Also, you can Save the mix before combining as a Lossless Project. That will let you go back to the individual tracks with the least damage.
I still have original voice tracks I shot a long time ago. That’s a big deal when you can’t shoot it again.
You still have the original music bed, right? You may be able to cover up the click at the end. Rescue jobs like this require you to suddenly be really good at track management, zooming, pasting and other tricks.
Zoom into the click and drag-select it. Effect > Amplify -40dB. Open the music on a second track and roll it forward until the same or very similar musical notes are over the blank spot. Cut all the music except that tiny portion. Adjust the timing and volume until they match. Audacity will smash everything together into one sound track when you File > Export.
It’s a similar job with adding music. Put the music on its own track. Delete the music you don’t want and adjust what’s left for good timing and volume. Audacity will push them together when you export.
If you get too many clicks and pops in the cuts, you may need to fade the corrections in and out. I think there’s a built-in tool that can do that now. I haven’t had to use it.
Others how are better at editing that I am will post.
Or you can shoot it again. This time export the voice track to its own backup sound file, and use uncompressed, perfect quality WAV, not MP3. You didn’t say whether the exported file was an MP3 or not. If it is, the corrected sound file will be lower quality than the original. Never do production in MP3.
Koz