Using Audacity to Remove Distortion
- First measure the overhead using Effects > Volume and Compression > Amplify note the number, that is the overhead
2.Add 5db of bass because of bass drop off from the mouth to the microphone
Effect > EQ and Filter > Bass and Treble > 5.0
3. Measure the overhead again
4. Subtract overhead 1 minus overhead 2
8.098
6.736
1.362
5. Amplify by the difference eg. -1.362 to get the original amplification overhead of the waveform.
Now we are back to the original overhead of the waveform
6. Normalized the entire track to -.1db to eliminate all clipping
7. Effect > Volume and Compression > Compressor > Fat Vocal
That’s all!
Here are some other things that were not used for the final track
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Distortion
EQ 2k-20k remove completely
Note: I did not touch the 630 slider, Audacity did it automatically
Noise Reduction
Low Pass (defaults)
Compress (defaults)
Order of operations
bass drop off
noise reduction
low pass filter
EQ
compressor
normalize