Hi Belladonna, Perhaps your problem with the volume comes from Audacity. You have to normalize all your tracks. You will find this in the effects. I hope that will help you. Christian
This song is much too pretty to not hear, so I tried to help. I squished it & squashed it in Audacity... And I emailed it to you... Hopefully it sounds OK to you. I like it! *********** Edited Portion: I decided to take a chance & I hope I do not offend Belladonna nor any forum user... I tried to fix the song in Audacity... Created a video with her lyrics... Then uploaded the video version. While we wait for updated version on SoundCloud... I hope you enjoy my humble efforts to help her out.
Last edited by Jim; 01/10/1903:13 AM. Reason: Added Update
It’s all been said. The write, as with all of yours, is excellent. Regarding the track gain I have marginally functional ears and I could not safely turn my monitors up enough to get a good idea off the production. A good limiter would help you very much. It’s more than normalizing or boosting db’s in a wave editor like Audacity. And this music production thing is a journey...not a destination so dig in and it’ll come.
Janice & Bud, Thanks for your nice comments. You'll probably laugh but I don't even know what a "limiter" is. It's obvious I'm really new to all this. And it doesn't help right now that I'm going into my crazy busy tax season, which gobbles up almost every bit of my time. But I'm a very persistent soul and I will not give up. I'll record this again as soon as I can and see what I can figure out. Have to brush up on the compression, normalizing, amplifying, mortifying, etc. Looks like I have a long learning curve.
Hi Phil, I took the link down on my Soundcloud page because the mix was no good. My vocals were way to low and the instruments were too loud in comparison. Jim here tried to correct it some in Audacity. i'm a newbie at mixing and certainly didn't get it right, but I hope to try it again soon if I can. Thanks for your kind comments.
I could hear that, but I still liked the song. Not sure what you use to record. When I started I asked a friend of mine in radio production what would be a good microphone that wouldn't break the bank - ended up with an Audio Technica ST 90 MKII Dynamic Microphone. Also on another friend's recommendation I bought this TC Helicon Harmony-G XT. It has the added bonus of being able to add simple harmonies if you ever perform live, but I don't like the harmonies it produces for recording. They sound a little too ... electronic. Better than nothing performing solo live, though.
But! Just as a recording interface/compressor, I like it a lot. Ended up finding one used so I didn't pay an arm and a leg for it.
I also ... and you might get away with one of these and NOT use the Helicon ... a Focusrite 2i2 for a mic interface to your computer. That and a decent mic will go a long way to picking your vocals up better. I use both. I run the mic through the Helicon, and then through the Focusrite, and on to the laptop.
I use Reaper for my DAW software. It's only like $60 for people like us.
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