Making mp3 quality ringtones better

Hello,
I’m a completely newbie of daring and I want to ask for advice … I tried to create a ringtone (with the help of wiki audacity), and the melody sounds great on the computer, but on Phone, it is very bad. Are there some effects that will help make it better?
Thanks!

The speakers on the computer are designed to reproduce music and voice. The sound system on a smartphone is designed to reproduce ring tones, so the problem is recursive.

I haven’t googled this yet, but I strongly suspect you would have to send your tone through a filter such as Effect > Equalization: Telephone and get rid of all the bass tones. That should sound a lot better right there. Then get rid of even more bass with Effect > High Pass Filter: 1000 Hz, 24dB.

That’s going to sound terrible on your computer, but it should survive the phone OK.

Koz

Not so true these days Koz.

I carry my entire music library on my Samsung Galaxy S9 (usually for headphone or Bluetooth speaker listening) - but I am astounded by the quality of the sound it can produce on its small inbuilt speaker(s).

Peter

and the sound quality from my i7 laptop speakers is dreadful.

I am astounded by the quality of the sound it can produce on its small inbuilt speaker(s).

Still, I can’t believe booming bass on a tiny speaker is going to go well. That’s the first place I’d look for distortion problems. I would reference many USB microphones whose sub-bass trash can be louder than the voice. If you suppress the bass and much if not all of the distortion vanishes, then you have your answer.

the sound quality from my i7 laptop speakers is dreadful.

You can have surprises. My 13" Macbook Air doesn’t have “speakers.” It has compression drivers under the keyboard. Good choice. The larger and much heavier MacBook Pros sounded like a cellphone.

Koz