Forum Discussion

JoeWaddington1's avatar
JoeWaddington1
Community Member
13 years ago

How much editing do you do to make your Narrations sound better?

I've only recently started using Audacity to record and clean up my narration tracks.  I've done a lot of scouring for tips and tricks on how to make things sound better.  But I'll be the first to ...
General E-Learning
PhilipLima1's avatar
PhilipLima1
Community Member
13 years ago

I use Sound Forge for editing.  I normally:

  1. Edit breath sounds
  2. Care for plosives and ticks
  3. Filter out any background noise I can
  4. Adjust all pauses in recording.  Different prople have different speach patterns.  When I make the pauses similar (stopping at periods, commas, etc) the whole track flows much better.  Usually .4 for periods and .2 for commas.
  5. Normalize
  6. Play with semitones and add time stretch to add richness

One hour of audio will normally take me 6 hours to edit.