If this is your first time hearing about it, Audacity is an open source (and free) application for recording and editing audio. So in my never ending search for that perfect sound, I’ve come across a reliable process which works for me.īest of all, it’s using Audacity, which is my all-time - favourite - audio editor. I’m not saying I want to sound like I have access to a professional recording studio.Īs it’s nice to still have a slightly more relaxed sound. So it’s important to me that I sound professional, and not like I’m all alone in a room. I do an increasing amount of audio work whether that’s for my Free the Geek podcast, technical training videos, or longer courses. You can highlight where clipping occurs on your tracks in Audacity by going to View > Show Clipping.Whether you’re creating a podcast or a screencast, how do you make your voice sound as professional as possible - without an expensive recording studio? Today I’ll show you how to do it using the free, open-source tool Audacity. This will ruin the effect over those parts. If you’re using MP3s, do whatever you can to avoid using tracks with a lot of clipping.

These full-quality instrumentals usually really work well for isolating vocals.Īs with center-channel (vocal) removing, the better the quality of the original tracks, the better the effect works. There are plenty of places online where you can buy these tracks, like, and some singles and records even have them on the B side, so all in all, it shouldn’t be too difficult to find them for most popular artists. Many studios release the instrumental tracks (with and without backup vocals) for use with things like karaoke. Don’t be disheartened if you don’t have one ready. Removing the vocals to get an instrumental track and then trying to isolate the vocals does not work in this case. In order for this to work, however, you need to have a studio version of the instrumental track. It will leave us, in this case, with the vocal track.

Isolating the vocals works like removing vocals in both cases we combine the original waveform with an inverted waveform to “subtract” the part we don’t want.

Edit vocals in audacity