Hi Guys.
Can anyone help me here? I am a very new user of Audacity. I have been putting together a couple of radio shows buy making my voice files and then adding music files to the files I have recorded. When I first record my voice files they are of very high quality but when I have added the music files and put the show together my voice files sound pretty bad but the sound files seem OK. do I have a setting wrong somewhere? This is really confusing me. I just know someone is going to point out something really obvious. Kevin.
Can anyone help
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Kevinobrien
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kozikowski
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Re: Can anyone help
That may be the clue right there. You are intended to create a show by accumulating very high quality voice and music files into an Audacity Project and then manipulating, managing, filtering, etc, etc, and then Exporting a finished show. If you do any of this work in MP3, then the compression sound damage will slowly eat you alive.I have been putting together a couple of radio shows buy making my voice files and then adding music files to the files I have recorded.
Does your voice get honky and bubbly like a bad cellphone, or is it very loud, crisp and crunchy? Those are two common problems.
Do production and clip management in WAV (Microsoft) and the quality will stay constant through the production steps.
Did I hit it? Describe how you are assembling your show. Include details.
"I import a music file into a second track under my voice and then I slide it into position with the Time Shift Tools, etc."
Koz
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Kevinobrien
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Re: Can anyone help
Hi kozikowski.
Yes you hit the nail right on the head. I was doing all the above. I was making voice files and saving to mp3, then I was adding the voice files to the audio files. I should know I'm a photographer by trade and similar happens with JPEGs. Is it possible to record wave files is Audacity or is there a plugin for it?
Yes you hit the nail right on the head. I was doing all the above. I was making voice files and saving to mp3, then I was adding the voice files to the audio files. I should know I'm a photographer by trade and similar happens with JPEGs. Is it possible to record wave files is Audacity or is there a plugin for it?
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Re: Can anyone help
Audacity always records in lossless PCM which is essentially the same representation of audio as WAV or AIFF.Kevinobrien wrote:I was doing all the above. I was making voice files and saving to mp3, then I was adding the voice files to the audio files. I should know I'm a photographer by trade and similar happens with JPEGs. Is it possible to record wave files is Audacity or is there a plugin for it?
What you should do is record, File > Save Project... then you can store the recordings losslessly until you want to add the imported audio files.
Or export the recordings as WAV (Microsoft) not MP3.
Gale
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Yes, JPEG and MP3 have a lot of similarities.
Audacity Project is the rough equivalent of Photoshop PSD format, which not only saves the graphic, but all the layers, graphic elements, draw elements, and text objects.
WAV can be thought of as TIFF or TGA. Essentially loss-less, but not as talented as a Project. A poor quality MP3 can be compared to a GIF. 16 colors. Have a good time.
Audacity Projects are more easily damaged than WAV, so it's a good idea to Save As progressively more modern Projects as you go, keeping the older ones around against the time the computer ralphs on the floor and takes the current project with it. Also, Export WAV and maybe later, if you really need to, Export as MP3 so you can post it on-line or your Personal Music Player. Many Personal Music Players will play WAV files, so you don't even have to do it there, but jogging along a truck route is not a good time to worry about delicate compression damage, and you can get a lot more songs on with the compression.
Did you know MP3 is part of a video specification? It's full name is MPEG-1, Layer 3. Oh, and enjoy those CompuServe GIFs.
Koz
Audacity Project is the rough equivalent of Photoshop PSD format, which not only saves the graphic, but all the layers, graphic elements, draw elements, and text objects.
WAV can be thought of as TIFF or TGA. Essentially loss-less, but not as talented as a Project. A poor quality MP3 can be compared to a GIF. 16 colors. Have a good time.
Audacity Projects are more easily damaged than WAV, so it's a good idea to Save As progressively more modern Projects as you go, keeping the older ones around against the time the computer ralphs on the floor and takes the current project with it. Also, Export WAV and maybe later, if you really need to, Export as MP3 so you can post it on-line or your Personal Music Player. Many Personal Music Players will play WAV files, so you don't even have to do it there, but jogging along a truck route is not a good time to worry about delicate compression damage, and you can get a lot more songs on with the compression.
Did you know MP3 is part of a video specification? It's full name is MPEG-1, Layer 3. Oh, and enjoy those CompuServe GIFs.
Koz