Hi, help me please.
I recorded the song. I had an instrumental music, and I only recorded a voice. I did it mixed it and saved as MP3. Everything is ok when I hear the record on computers. But when I play it on the smartphone I can hear only music, and the voice is like a quiet hum. I record voice wit mikrophone Reloop. if you know what can I do with this let me know please.
I think your voice is mixed into the music wrong. I think any single speaker or one channel sound system is going to have the same problem.
Select A Copy of the whole song by clicking just above MUTE.
Effect > Vocal Remover > OK.
Did your voice get louder?
If it did, your voice is mixed into the music out of phase. There’s no good fix for that. If you fix your voice (we can do that) it will mess up the music.
This is why people serious about music save production as multi-track instead of pushing everything onto one finished stereo MP3 and hope for the best.
If you have a multi-track, you select the voice by itself, fix it and then mix it into another finished song.
Koz
thank you so much for your respond.
Yes, when I did ‘Effect > Vocal Remover > OK’ the voice was louder, even a bit too loud.
Can you tell me how to mix the tracks? I have always one track with music and some tracks with voices. I’ve always selected all tracks together and chosen option “Mix and Render”. And than I’ve exported it to MP3.
How should I do it correctly? Can I ask you for instruction? I would be very grateful.
the voice was louder, even a bit too loud.
That wasn’t intended as a show fix, just a test to make sure what you have.
You can get this problem if you have the wrong audio adapter between your XLR microphone and your soundcard. It’s a little rough to explain, but the wiring error produces a normal image of your voice on Left, but a mirror-image on Right. Any time you play the show on something with one speaker, your voice cancels out.
Describe your microphone and how you have it connected.
Koz
my microphone is Reloop sPod Pro (http://www.reloop.com/reloop-spod-pro). It has built-in interface. and I just connect it by USB to my laptop.
excuse me, but your nick sounds polish (do you speak polish maybe? it would be easier for me to understand everything).
Lexy
Yes, when I did ‘Effect > Vocal Remover > OK’ the voice was louder, even a bit too loud.
You can fix the vocal problem by inverting one channel. However, this might mess-up the music depending on how and when the vocal got inverted. (If you still have the original stereo vocal-only track and music tracks, do this to the vocal track before re-mixing) -
1. Click the little drop-down arrow to the left of the waveform and select Split to Mono. (This will allow you to edit the left & right channels independently.)
2. Select/highlight one of the waveforms. Apply Effect → Invert.
3. Click the drop-down arrow again and select Make Stereo Track.
4. Export the modified file.
Can you tell me how to mix the tracks? I have always one track with music and some tracks with voices. I’ve always selected all tracks together and chosen option “Mix and Render”. I had an instrumental music, and I only recorded a voice. I did it mixed it and saved as MP3.
I have no idea how this could have happened. This should be impossible with a mono voice file. Did you apply any “stereo widening” effects or anything like that?
If you recorded the voice with the mic set to stereo, maybe the mic is defective? If the a stereo mic is mis-wired the left & right channels could be out-of-phase.
P.S.
Plug regular stereo headphones into your phone and the out-of-phase vocals won’t cancel! (…Because the left & right channels never mix together.)
I have no idea how this could have happened.
Exactly. This is the “stop and stare at the screen” moment. I know people who think that “out of phase” vocals are a cute effect, but I can’t see anybody intentionally creating or wiring a microphone like that.
If the a stereo mic is mis-wired the left & right channels could be out-of-phase.
Right. Or a mono microphone playing into a stereo system could give a problem like this. That would be my first guess.
Set up your microphone for normal singing or dialog and make a straight recording. No music, no effects, nothing but your voice. Really short. Four seconds. Read the side of the milk carton.
Do you get a stereo track, two blue waves? Further, if you zoom all the way into the waves (drag-select > Control E > repeat), do you see the lumps matching or out of step (matching, attached)? Matching like the illustration is what’s supposed to happen.
Koz
Control-F to zoom out Full to the whole show.
Koz
Hi, I record something short, and I found that the waves are not exactly the same. Their upside-down:
On my microphone I have set stereo, and in aoudacity, too.
Can I do something with that, should I change something on programm settings? or record only in mono?
Easiest solution: record in mono.
That’s not the only thing broken. You also have DC Offset. On the left of the top blue wave, you have a black line and a blue one. You’re supposed to have only one line like the bottom wave.
You will find it very difficult to do sound production with this microphone because each edit and cut will pop, tick or click.
So if you do music and voice productions, you will spend most of your time fixing microphone problems instead of making a show.
That’s the point you put the microphone in the trash.
Koz
Ok, I understand now where is the problem. Thank you so much for your help, and explain me some things. I will change my microphone. It’s my first and I don’t have any experiance with choosing the recording equipment. I hope my next choice will be better.
Thank you so much, again.
Lexy
Are you sure that you are actually recording from the Reloop sPOD PRO? I would not expect to see a noticeable amount of DC offset from a microphone in this price range unless it is faulty, or there is a fault somewhere else. On the other hand, recordings from the built-in mic of a laptop computer frequently show this sort of fault.
Lexy appears in the screenshot at https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/problem-with-recorded-voice-its-not-heard-on-smartphone/39248/9 to be recording from the Reloop.
@Lexy, have you been into Windows Sound, Recording tab, right-clicked over Reloop and checked for any “Advanced” or “Enhancements” tab? It’s not really likely, but it is just possible there is a setting there for DC offset correction or some unwanted effect that you could turn off.
You would expect to see settings like those for a built-in mic.
Gale