This treble boost should only be applied to the singer, not the entire final mix. approx 3dB-6dB boost in the range 4 to 8Khz, (via Audacity’s equalizer).

“ rambling fever”, would benefit from being louder in the mix with a treble boost, e.g. When mixing the final track my suggestion is have the percussion track at a much lower level in the mix than in your original of “tomorrow”, there shouldn’t be percussion spikes protruding way beyond the rest of the rest of the waveform, ( e.g.)īTW IMO your (very good) singer, e.g. Īpplying the limiter to the final mix, as I did above, rather than the percussion track only, does damage the other sounds : the limiting effect applies to all the sounds on the track when the waveform goes above the threshold. If you have a separate track of the percussion on its own I would apply the limiter to that alone so none of the percussion hit noises exceed a threshold. ( use a regular compressor for vocalists, rather than a limiter ). Set the recording device to your microphone in Audacity's Device Toolbar (or on Mac, set the microphone as the default recording source in Apple Audio MIDI Setup). Click on File > Save Project > Save Project or File > Save Project > Save Project As. Steve’s limiter is an ultra-fast compressor which can cope with percussion. Start Audacity: a new untitled project window opens.

The response time of a regular compressor is not fast enough to cope with the very steep attack of percussion. 6 Compress as required Normally using … 8:1 in Bass Drum and Snare drum

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