Audio Secrets/ How to Normalize Audio in Audacity

hey slow for low nose and we're going to jump straight into this video I'm going to show you how to normalize your audio in audacity now if you look at my levels here you can see how my levels are hanging on right around 18 negative 12 decibels this is where I like to have my audio hitting in my raw first time recording this gives me enough Headroom to normalize my audio and then after normalizing my audio if I need to put EQ or compression this still gives me enough Headroom where I'm far and away clear from zero decibels the point where my digital audio starts to store it or a clip now if you're recording audio for video of course you're going to want your claps so let's start a recording right here let's get our claps in alright and then we'll give a couple lines of dialogue like I'm doing right now alright and yeah I'm sorry and I'll you know let me change my view to waveform there we go we can actually follow along where our levels are peaking right here you can see it's a 15 right there it's not really hitting 10 and okay we'll stop right there okay so here's our waveform let's take a listen right here let's get our class in okay let's let's do it again right here let's get our claps in alright and they'll double lines of dialogue like I'm doing right now alright and yeah I'm sorry and I'll you know let me change my view to waveform there we go we can actually follow along where our levels are peaking right here you can see okay so we can see that our average our levels were pinging about 15 you know what that's that's fine with me our audio is low and we could actually hear that it actually sounds low but it's low and audios clean that's what we want so now we want to boost what we have okay but first I want to show you something before we get to boosting here do you see this right here these are our claps the clap celibate so we can actually make those markers when syncing up our audio to our video when we normalize know when you normalize you want to set your audio to a certain decibel level that's what normalizing is all about so if I go to effects normalize negative six and I apply this to the way the current audio is set now watch what happens to my audio my audio shrinks why well because I had set where I want that my peaks of my audio to hit negative six decibels my current claps were hit or hitting well above negative successful energy hitting zero maybe pass that so when when we set those parameters for the negative six decibels the normalization actually said hold on a second our Peaks are higher than zero let's bring everything down to six and of course it doesn't just mess with a piece it messes the entire waveform so everything goes down until the peaks are six and everything goes down in relationship to that okay so let's undo that and how do we get around that and on SC well we're going to take our audio separately we'll highlight our audio separate from our claps go back to effects normalize negative six decibels and boom our audio increases we'll go ahead and do that for beginning effects normalize negative six boom alright so let's take a listen now right here let's get our claps in all right and now uple lines of dialogue like I'm doing right now alright and yeah I'm sorry and I'll you know let me change my view to waveform there we go we can actually follow along where our levels are peaking right here you can see it's a fifteen right alright so our audio is still sounding good and you can obviously hear that the audio is now louder and and we now we still have our claps in for when we need to pote I'm sorry but we need to sync up our our audio with our video alright guys so that's normalizing in audacity if you liked it or if it helped you out please leave a like if you have any questions or comments go ahead leave in the comment section below and if you want to see more videos like this go ahead I'm always making videos go ahead and subscribe so until next time guys I will see you in the next video this is low for low nose laugh sorta catch your next video bye

Channel: Lo Knows Tech

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Id: t-UFEqoOn7Y

Length: 4min 3sec (243 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 29 2016