Hello, please help. I use audacity to create a 2 hour Classic Rock music program that is broadcast on a local FM radio station. My problem is, the music sounds fine but my voice announcements sound fuzzy or over modulated. When I make the program in Audacity the music and my voice sound fine but when I send it through we-transfer to the radio station owner and then he sends it to the radio station for broadcast, the music sounds fine but my voice gets fuzzy and distorted. Can anyone help me fix this, it has been driving me crazy trying to figure out why it does this. Do I need a better more expensive mic ? Thank you for any help.
If the audio file you submit does not have the problem, then replacing your mic will not help.
What about when you play the rendered file in Windows Media Player, or whatever?
How are your levels? Are they possible clipping? This is the most common kind of distortion.
…It’s possible for your levels to exceed 0dB in Audacity because audacity used floating-point internally. and you may not hear anything wrong unless you play it at “full digital volume” and clip your DAC. But exported “regular” WAV & FLAC files are hard-limited at 0dB and they will clip if you “try” to go over.
I assume it remains as WAV or FLAC (lossless) and nobody is converting it to MP3 or some other lossy format along the way.
Also, mixing is done by summation so if you have separate tracks in Audacity, the separate tracks may not clip or exceed 0dB but they can if two songs overlap or if you overlap music and your voice.
I record my voice and music at or below -6 db so I don’t think it is clipping. Also not recording any overlapping tracks. The voice sounds fine when I play it back in Audacity or in windows music and even if I export it (wav or mp3) and put it on a flashdrive and finally load it on my phone and listen to it on there. It is only when it gets played “on the air” at the radio station that it gets fuzzy sounding.
I guess you’ll have to find out what they’re doing to it after it leaves your hands.
When I was involved in radio back in the stone ages, compression and limiting were standard and I think they still are. That was done in real-time before the transmitter. A limiter is required because it’s illegal to over-modulate but they don’t have to push the signal into limiting. (I think they usually do to win the loudness war.) But I don’t know why your recordings would be more processed than everybody else.