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JessHow do you make singing sound, better on Audacity? First good answer gets best answer!!!?
Well, if you are using Audacity, you are either an experienced user or a beginner.
If you are experienced, you probably have a sound booth, a proper microphone setup and know what you are doing, so I'm going to hazard a guess that you wouldn't ask this question.
On the other hand, Audacity is typically the first program people use to record music and singing. It's not all that great for that, but it works.
The obstacle though is that you need to know what you are doing. Audacity does little more than simply record the sound that it is fed.
You will need to know how to work your equipment to get the results you want.
Fergie sounds good (really?) because she has been recorded by professionals. First, they get the raw sound by recording in an acoustically neutral studio. Sometimes there is a non acoustically neutral environment used for some singers, but I doubt someone as 'pulp music' as Fergie would do that.
Then they will usually apply some effects to fill out her sound. Things like reverb, vibrato and such can really add some meat. Another thing that can really help fill out sound is simply by splitting the vocals equally to stereo. It's very common in pro level recordings to have vocals 'center' (both channels), and instruments split left and right in one channel only.
One way you can check to see if this has been done is to take one channel and reverse its phase (not 100% sure if Audacity can do that since I only used it for 3 days). You will notice that the vocals almost completely vanish, but the instruments remain. This is because the vocals are identical on both channels, so cancel each other out, but the instruments are different, so it doesn't matter what phase they are in. You can still hear them clearly.
Mostly though, it all begins with a good microphone, a quiet environment and controlling the ambient acoustics so you get a clean recording.
You should look at some other recording programs for more power.
Try Acoustica Mixcraft. It's pretty cheap and very popular. There are some nice effects you can add.
If you add too many effects or add them too strong, you won't sound good, but you might sound like some professional singers. That's just because they don't sound good, they just sell albums.
Check out Kina Grannis for some lovely low processing female vocals. I believe she also has a few processed songs that you can check out as well. Jason Mraz is another good one to check out for learning about singing and effects because a lot of his stuff has very little processing, but he has a few 'tuned for radio' songs that are great to learn from by comparing.
"First good answer gets Best Answer"
heh.
wtf is up with the whole 'pitch correction' thing. I don't think that is mentioned anywhere in the question. If you can't get the pitch right, it's not that you can't sing well, it's that you can't sing. yeesh.
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How do you make singing sound, better on Audacity? First good answer gets best answer!!!?My friend had to do a whole paper on this in one of my music technology classes last year. First of all, you cannot really correct pitches on Audacity and there is a reason why Audacity is a free program.
First of all, there is a program called Auto-tune that is used frequently in bettering the sounds of radio recording artists, such as Fergie and too many artists to name. It practically fixes notes to be completely in tune, without the artists to even try. Also, if you want, it can even give off an unnatural effect that sounds like echoed vibrato. The most common person to use this "effect" was Cher in her song "believe".
This program is used a lot to have the musicians appear to possess perfect pitch, when frankly, they do not. There is not one professional recording artists like Fergie, Britney Spears, Christa Angulara, Katy Perry, Kanya West, Lil Wayne, Garth Brooks, Chris Brown Rascal Flatts, Akon, Jay-Z, Faith Hill, Death Cab for Cutie, etc There is just too many to name. Every single "popular" artist uses it on records.
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anyone can sing good with auto tune... it's sad really and it takes the talent away from people that do not need auto tune and have the confedince to sing with there one voice like Neko Case. Anyways i hoped this helped you.
:)How do you make singing sound, better on Audacity? First good answer gets best answer!!!?
I think they edit the voice in a studio before it gets marketed to radio stations and cds and such, so there wouldn't really be a way to change that I don't think
Don't use effects to make you sound better, just work on your singing.
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