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Volume automation - Audacity Tutorial
From the course: Learning Audacity
Volume automation
- [Instructor] Now let's take a look at the envelope tool which is used for controlling a track's volume level smoothly over time. I'm still working with a version of the podcast project file, and if you recall we added this music track earlier. We had it muted up to this point since we've been working with the other vocal tracks, and we can see by looking at it that the music is probably too loud. Let's take a listen. (rock music drowns out podcast speaker) So it's kind of covering up the actual vocal part right now. But it's not uncommon to have music playing in the background during a spoken word recording. Now I could simply lower the volume of the music track, and try something like that, to see how that sounds. - [Podcaster] Hello and welcome to the video learning podcast, I'm Garrick Chow, and this is episode 105. - [Instructor] And that doesn't sound bad, but that makes the entire music track one consistent volume.…
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