I have just finished a test recording using the equipment kindly gifted by [MENTION=90024]nsureit[/MENTION] and requested him for his guidance and feedback. Personally, as a singer, I was amazed at how effortlessly this set of equipment picked up lower notes so clearly. I used Audacity as DAW. Once finalized, I would be more than happy to share the result here.
Nah! We want 'warts and all! OK, seriously I think it pays to post some 'Work In Progress' because the Top Chaps here (not I) can probably identify problems very early in your trials and save you time.
Also, I am sure someone has said this already but, excellent as Audacity is, it is not a fully-fledged DAW and is limited in various ways. Reaper is free for as long as you can keep the guilt at bay and only $60US to buy (although I understand that might be a lot of money for you. PM me)
Dave.
Nice work [MENTION=204825]SRoyC[/MENTION]. You have a pleasant voice.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation. I have never done mixing. So please tell me where I can improve (I know the list would be long ). And is the output from the cakewalk is low volumewise?
I'm just getting back into this mixing business myself after a long hiatus, so I'll defer to the more accomplished here. The second song in Cakewalk, though at a lower volume, sounds better than the first song in Audacity.
Thank you! I am actually trying to figure out how to increase the output gain of the downmix in cakewalk. As an experiment I exported the song again in wave, imported the same into Audacity and increased the gain by +3.0 dB which made the loudness better. As I monitored the output level in audacity after aplying the 3.0dB gain, the playback meter touched red only once, otherwise it remained within -6.0dB range. I know I am not doing something right, and the peak should not touch 0dB but I am yet to figure that out.
OK! Wonga where gob is,
I have taken the liberty of adding slight compression to the track and a bit of reverb. I hope you like the result. Please feel free to comment on my music, I am so grateful for the constructive comments that I receive, that's one of the best ways to learn for me.
Dave.
Hi Dave
Thank you for your feedback and thanks for taking the liberty to work on the file. Please feel free to comment on my music as I am so grateful for all the constructive comments that I receive. It's one of the best ways for me to learn.
I had applied some reverb to the main vocal tracks, but it seems like that was insufficient.
Regarding "Normalize", is there any measurement from where I should start?
Is there any way to apply a particular effect on all the tracks in a project at one go?