Make Your Voice Sound Better In Audacity (EASY) 

The whole tutorial in one comment :D 1. Noise removal 2. Compressor (-15 to -18) 3. Equlizer (Curve to Bass Boost) 4. Repeat Step 3 with Treble Boost 5. Hard Limiter (-3.0) 6. Normalize

Equalization effect is now Filter Curve EQ.

Tired of background noise? Drape a thick blanket over yourself and the mic while recording. You will LOOK stupid, but nobody is going to _SEE_ you on a audio recording, and it is the closest thing to having a "Dead room" (no echo from walls, background noise, etc). Also make sure you are on carpet or a rug, the floor can really reflect your voice as well. Hope this helps everyone. - Kevin

These tutorials from this channel kickstarted my life as a multimedia artist back in like 2014

Finally, a person who really sounds clear while teaching you how to make voice clear!

is there an effect for people who hate their voice LOL

This is great. I have a voice that sounds like a sparrow being strangled. With this trick I sound like a butch sparrow. Thanks for posting. works well.

1. Change noise profile 2. Echo- 0.1, 0.1 (This can add an extra flavor) 3. Compressor, threshold (-15 to -20; suggestive -18) 4. Equalization, Bass boost, select default 5. Equalization, Treble boost, select default 6. Hard limiter, (-0.2 to -0.5; suggestive -0.4) Thanks for such a good voice suggestion...

this just saved my voice overs, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! subscribe!

Talking close up to your microphone sounds is by far the best way. After audio processing, it sounds likes professional quality.

Thank you for your guide! I'm also using the Blue Yeti and this has definitely improved my audio quality.

Anyone watching in 2017, Noise Remover has been removed (heh heh) and was replaced with Noise Reduction. I've personally found it easier to just select unwanted noise>generate>silence in lieu of the new Noise Reduction feature. Great video, mate.

when u have a headset and ur only an inch away XD

Definitely 'like' for this tutorial! Just one note: I wouldn't be so enthusiastic about "bass boost" - your voice become *not deep*, but like you're speaking from a barrel. It's different thing! "Natural" deep voice is not just "big bass", but a whole tembre and "harmonized" with other tones. It's a big theory!

In general, Bass Boosting and Treble boosting is decent, but the defaults are WAY over the top.You should never do it over 6 db generally unless something went really wrong with the recording. Doing it to 9 db like here is overkill and pretty much makes it noticeable that you're modifying your voice - it gives the slight automoton-like ring to it in the background. The other contributing component is when you treble boost that much, you get all those spikes that you have to hard-limiter. Hard-limiters distort audio quality. So if you can avoid creating huge spikes with treble boosting, you can probably avoid using the hard limiter altogether. These steps are good, I would just say play around with lesser emphasis on the bass/treble-boosting 'till it sounds better.

This is a recipe for someone who doesn't understand what he is doing but somehow he did it .. I can't believe how beautiful the result is .. this is the greatest straight forward answer I ever got to a question... Thank you!

it distorts my voice and makes it sound really metallic

Thank you so much for this. I am recording old sermons for my husband for father's day from cassettes and have no idea how to use Audacity.

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i know this upload is yearssssssssssss old but you just helped me out a lot and i wanna say THANK YOU SO MUCH! Im new to music and YT and all that stuff and you just helped me learn so much more with audacity. 🙏

Sorry this is a dumb question but what mic do you use?

I know this is old, but I just tried out these techniques using the crappiest microphone I could find (which is an inline cord mike attached to a super crappy pair of pc headphones) and I could not believe that I was almost able to make my voice sound good enough for commentary or podcast. (I say almost because it still sounded a bit weird, but all in all, it was totally transformed from the original, and all in a good way) Thanks for the info!

Couldn't tell a difference tbh but good vid.

Just wanted to say thanks, I use this for my podcast every week and follow these steps. I know nothing about sound editing, so it's perfect and my voice sounds good.

wish i saw this years ago, would have saved so much time...

Thanks! I've been using Audacity for a while, but I hadn't used all of the steps in your list. Much improved, and my recording was done with a pretty low-rent condenser shotgun mike in my office with ventilation noise and ambient noise through the wall and a vent from a staff lounge next door. I'm pretty happy with the results.

I can't find hard limiter :/

This tutorial really helped me produce a professional sounding interview for my college audio class project. Thank you for going at a decent pace which was easy for me to follow along.

Thank you so much! This helps me not sound like a 12 year old! YAY!

A lot of people are complaining about making you sound distorted and stuff, I played around with it for a bit and DO NOT do a treble boost . The treble boost makes your voice sound extremely distorted.

Very useful audactity information here for all youtubers, thanks a lot!

Wow, I'm impressed, you provided all the info related with your PC/Laptop in the description, that's quite rare here on RU-vid. Good Work!

what if my face is ugly? will my voice still sound okay??? idk :/

I rewatch this video every time I edit an audio. Great work, thanks

is there a way i can simply save all the settings that were done so that I don't have to repeat each step over and over?

Your audacity tutorial helps me a lot. I keep referring to if for quality sounds in my videos. Thank you

This is basically the same as Pico210's tutorial.

solid tutorial. this gives you the gist of basic voice recording enhancement.

i dont have hard limiter

Holy cow! This really improved the quality of the audio recording! I still need to see how it works on our longer duration recordings, but man, what a difference! Thanks!

I'm not going to lye this really helped

This is really improved the mixing of my covers so much! I uploaded my first cover last week and it was really bad! the volume goes louder at some point then does softer again. My friends are even shocked by the improvement I made in a week! THANK YOU!

I don't have "Hard Limiter..."

This video is the difference between success and failure for me. Thank you so much for making it. You have a new subscriber.

How tf did u record this then?

thank you for explaining what each step does not like other tutorial. thumbs-up!

there is no hard limiter for me

Holy, goodness. This video maybe old, but there's a reason it's still good. Very helpfull dude, don't have to go editing the crap out of my audio anymore. Thanks!

mine doesnt have hard limiter :(

This is really helpful! Now I can have better quallity on my talking in my videos! I couldn't have that befor but now I can!

who is here even before downloading audacity

This helped me out a lot! I make covers for songs using the UTAU program and I just could never seem how to "amplify" my voice without it sounding like it was going to blow the speakers. Thank you so much!!

"Works on both on Mac and Windows" rip linux xd

It's been 4 years yet this still helps me. Thanks @KingTutsPro!

People commenting shortcuts and all that jus appreciate the work people put in Jeez good video bro helped alof

A good explanation of noise removal and voice improvement.

Instead of using equalizer to make your voice sound deeper you can also go to effects and than pitch and the scroll button on the new tab if you go into the negative range your voice will sound deeper. I hope this helps

There is a cool recorded speech texturing process that has been around for, and been improved upon since the 1960's. Relatively few know it or understand it. After more decades than I care to admit, I finally figured it out on my own. I also learned that it is such a well-kept secret, I'd also better keep it secret or I might get a visit from a nasty hit-man.

Excellent job explaining the working of the audio tools! Used to be we bought accessories to do this such as a FBE w a compressor and EQ built in. Wow; GREAT JOB! Thx.

Wish I knew about these tips AGES ago! I mean, I knew about the Noise Removal sure, but the rest is pretty new to me! I'll have to play around with these a bit first though, make sure that it won't cause any unintended effects to my editing process.

These are good tips...been using aduacity for YEARS, and didn't know anything ast the 3:00 mark, just used it for noise cancellation..but just purchased a blue yeti snowball for $50 and look forward to making some videos with better quality..will save this one for sure

Coming back to this five years later to say thanks again. I should have had this tattooed on my arm, lol.

Bro I know im late on this video but OMG this helped me so much, this has like completely changed my outlook on my audio techica AT2020 because i noticed it picking up my fam from my PC and this has changed the game plan bro so THANK YOU SO MUCH!

I have used this for every college project with a video included

getting audio from my first wedding video and this is helping wonderfully, thanks

Thanks man! My voice was pretty weak sounding before, but now I sound like Paul Bunyan.

Wow... Thanks man. This is incredible. The difference is so big, it's still my voice but it's completely different and better at the same time.

i seriously almost watch this video every time i forget these simple steps, thank you!

THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!! I was making a diss track and it had to sound "proffesional" so i took to this tutorial, best 6 minutes of my life

Dude this helped me so much on my school Project. Thanks so much!!!

NICE. Thanks a bunch, these steps really improved my voice-over quality for my videos.

Nice tutorial. Clear and easy to understand. maybe it will help me to get there soon.

Thank god i found this video this should help me out alot with my let's plays.

Keep about 30cm away from mic. NOISE REMOVAL: Wait approx 5 secs before starting recording, and 3 secs after recording. This allows you to get rid of background noise: Highlight empty space. Effect > Noise Removal > Get Noise Profile Select entire track. Effect > Repeat Noise Removal COMPRESSOR: Effect > Compressor Put threshold at about -18. BASS BOOST: Effects > Equalization Select curve: Bass Boost TREBLE BOOST: Effects > Equalization Select curve: Treble Boost HARD LIMITER: Makes sound come through at a level volume. Effect > Hard Limiter dB limit: between -2 and -5; tweak to preference using preview. NORMALIZE: Effect > Normalize > OK Makes voice louder. Did this for my college work, so I thought I may as well comment it as well.

While the clicks are a bit different than on my Mac, this tut is GREAT! thx.

AWE. SOME. Hey man, this IS awesome! I downloaded audacity on my mac last year, but haven't used it much or figured it out. YOUR explanations are TOP NOTCH, simple, and easy to understand! Next time I'm working on anything audio related, I'm going to refer myself back to THIS tutorial and follow along. So grateful for the exceptional work you do! Really appreciated 😊❤👍

I have been using this for a few years now. I wanted to look for improvements. The compress and hardlimiter were two items I never use. Thanks for this information. Will try and test out.

I have been struggling a lot to get a good voice sound while making the videos, and then I saw this video. Thank you so much! :)

i watch this every time i do a voice over.. tnx bro

thanks buddy had really problems with audio this has made it sound much better!

I am so happy you posted this man! I hope you don't mind, I'm going to record vocals for my song and post a comment with the link once I finish using your techniques. Have a great one you've just done me a service, thanks again.

Perfect. That's just what I was looking for. 😊

This is a great tutorial! Thanks this will help with my audiobook soooo much!

To use the graph for equalization for the bass and treble boosting they got rid of equalization and replaced it with filter curved and graphic EQ

A very good lesson. Short but full of useful info. Thanks and hats off to you.

Still the best audio settings for me after six years

Well Done.. Easy to understand and Thank YOU!

Thank you for this tutorial, it has made my voice louder and clearer! This was a very simple tutorial to follow through, I applaud you for that.

Very good tutorial. This is one of the best Audacity tutorials that I know!

I'm trying this! Thank you so much! I'm always pressed for time and this isn't hard to do at all!

Saved my youtube channel before it even started thank you!!!

VERY helpful! Thanks for putting this up!

Very helpful for this newbie. Suggest addressing how to diminish the sound of breathing in between statements? Thanks. Your voice sounds professional.

Awesome tutorial bro, just what a needed for my game voice acting.

This tutorial is 5 years but it still rocks

HELPED ME TREMENDOUSLY!!! THANK YOU!!

Thank you for this information- you made audacity very easy to understand.

Hey man. Been looking up a lot of these tutorials, but yours is the easiest and clearest. Thanks!

thanks for this video! I just started in voiceover recording at home and these tips helped with my sound editing tremendously!

i use these techniques on all my videos. any feed back is welcome