enhance sound

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johnnie
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enhance sound

Post by johnnie » Thu Feb 04, 2021 5:43 pm

Hello I am fairly new to Audacity and I am pretty basic on using it.
I have a cassette of a brass band and also some vocals. The recordings were made just using a cassette recorder and I am wondering if there is a way to enhance the overall sound plus solo's.
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Johnnie

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Re: enhance sound

Post by steve » Thu Feb 04, 2021 6:29 pm

Noise Reduction (don't over do it or it will sound weird): https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/noi ... ction.html

Graphic EQ (adjust to taste): https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/graphic_eq.html

Normalize (apply just before exporting your finished audio file): https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/normalize.html
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Re: enhance sound

Post by johnnie » Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:45 pm

Thank you very much
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Johnnie

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