Hi
I would joggle the order a bit around.
1. amplify (in order to set proper thresholds further down the line)
2. Apply high pass for speech (prevents compression from acting to low
frequency peaks)
3. Apply noise reduction (while the noise floor is still constant and
not wavy through compression)
4. truncate silence
5. Make your edits
6. apply compression
7. normalize with ReplayGain
8. Use the limiter to set the ceiling at -1 dB
Robert
On 30/08/2019, governor staten <govsta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is a document an acquaintance of mine wrote for me. Do you think it
is all correct? I'd be interested to hear your opinions.
For Best Results Podcasting with Audacity, learned from 15 years of hard
knocks.
If you have recorded through ZOOM (and it may be best to do so, Zoom’s
audio automatically normalizes and takes out some noise):
1) Select the track and run “Truncate Silence” if you want to get the
silences out of the recording to save space and time.Settings that work
for me:
Level: -40
Duration: 0.2
Truncate to: 0.2
2) Select the track and run Amplify, not Amplify again.
3) Edit whatever you need to.
4) Compress 2 or 3 times.This will bring up the frequencies that are
inadequately recorded.
5) Still noise?Highlight a section between vocal waves. The section
should show low or no volume.Select Noise Reduction.Click Get Noise
Profile.Go back to the track and highlight it.Select Noise Reduction
again - but this time click OK.That will take most of the clicks, treble
static and interference out of the track.If not enough, do this again.Be
careful - you can overdo Noise Reduction and mess up your track.
6) You can always do Undo.It’s good to check the track whenever an
effect is used.
7) If you want a little Echo, highlight what you want to echo, select
Echo.Set the parameters to .1 and .1 or, for much echo, .15 and .15.
8) Finally, highlight the track and Normalize at -1 or -2.
This is what I do every time.Yes, it takes time, but you get a much
better recording thanthe Master.Make sure to save as an AUP from time to
time.
