need help making acapellas in Audacity

It’s pretty easy. I downloaded Audacity a few days ago and have been playing around with it to make a couple of unpolished acapella songs of my own.
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General Overview of Making Acapella Songs:[/b:239pspv9]
Once you have figured out how many voices you want to incorporate in your song, and what parts each of these voices will be singing, you simply record one voice at a time. By default, Audacity will play back what you have already recorded as you are recording the next voice. If you do not wish to hear your existing recordings while recording a new voice, simply click the "Mute" button next to the tracks that you want muted. NOTE: sometimes when you listen to a track while recording a new one, and then listen to your final product, the two tracks won’t sound synchronized. This is a flaw with Audacity. To fix it you must simply use the time-shift tool (explained below) to shift the tracks until they match up. Once you are done recording, you can export your file as an .MP3 or .WAV file by going to File –> Export As MP3, or Export As WAV. [i:239pspv9]NOTE: you may need to download an MP3 encoder to save the file as an .MP3, but you do not need any additional tools to save the file as a .WAV.
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Tips for Polishing:
You can change the pitch of an audio track (or part of the audio track) by using the mouse to select a region of the track, and then going into Effect –> Change Pitch. You must have a rough idea of what the pitch actually is, and what pitch you want to change it to.

To change the volume of a track you simply adjust the gain meter located on the left-hand side of each track (looks like a slider with a – and + on either end). If you wish to change the volume by a greater amount that the gain meter will allow, you may want to adjust your input volume by using the right-most slider on the toolbar (the slider directly to the left of this will change the output volume).

You can change the timing of audio tracks by using the time shift tool (looks like a double-arrow on the upper left hand corner of the window). It helps to zoom in on the regions you want to synchronize (you can do this by selecting the + magnifying tool near the right hand side of the toolbar).

You can also split a track into two separate tracks by highlighting the entire sample and going to Edit –> Split.

You can crop a track by highlighting the region you want to keep and going to Edit –> Trim.

If you want to silence a portion of a track without altering the timing of the rest of it (which will happen if you highlight a section and delete it), you can go to Edit –> Silence

If you want to use a metronome while you are recording, you can go to Generate –> Click Track. You can set the Tempo, Beats per measure, and Number of measures you would like the metronome to last. NOTE: Audacity will insert any items from the generate menu into the current track, so you will have to make a new track (Project –> New Audio Track [or New Stereo Track]) if you don’t want portions of your current track replaced. (If you start a new project and have no tracks yet, then creating a Click Track will automatically create a new track, so you (obviously) don’t have to worry about overwriting any of your audio.)

If you want to change the speed of a track, you have two options: Change Speed or Change Tempo (both are found in the Effect menu).
-Changing the speed of a track will change the speed AND the pitch (increasing the speed increases the pitch, and decreasing the speed decreases the pitch).
-Changing the tempo of a track will change JUST the speed, and preserve the pitch.

There are many other cool effects you can do with Audacity, such as Reverse (plays everything backwards), WahWah (distorts the phase of the left and right channels so that the sound appears to move back and forth between the speakers), Echo, Fade in/out, etc. Another thing that’s great about Audacity is that it lets you Undo as many times as you want.

The best way to familiarize yourself with these different effects, as well as the many other features of Audacity, is to play around with them. You’ll learn how to use Audacity much faster by experimenting with the tools first, and then reading tutorials and what not (a complete reference manual for Audacity can be found online at [url:239pspv9]http://audacity.sourgeforce.net/help/documentation[/url:239pspv9])
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FOR MAKING YOUR ACAPELLA SONG:[/b:239pspv9]
The three most important tools you need to know how to use I listed first: Changing the pitch, the volume, and the timing. If you (and anyone else in your acapella group) can sing fairly well, you most likely won’t need to change the pitch. So really, the volume and timing are the 2 essential elements you need to master to create an acapella song.
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Some Extra Tips:[/b:239pspv9]
*Record the bass lines first, the solo parts next, and the harmony last. The bass lines generally have a steady beat, which you can use to keep the rest of your voices in time (instead of going through the trouble to make a click track). Recording the bass lines first also gives you a little more freedom in the solos, because you can slightly speed up or slow down if you want to, and then easily get back on the beat (you cant really do this first and then try to fit it to a regular beat i.e. a bass line). Since the harmony usually goes along with the solo parts, it makes sense to record the solos before the harmony. So in general, record the beat first, and then the voices, going from the most powerful to the most subordinate ones.

*Make sure two tracks sound good together before adding a third one. It’s much harder to record multiple tracks and then try to align the timing and adjust the volume of all of them at once.

I hope this helps! Please forgive me if any of the above information is incorrect (although I tried very hard to prevent this by checking all of my facts against the quick reference manual). I am new to Audacity, and am still learning about many of the features. If I discover something particularly useful for making Acapella songs, I will keep you posted!

Good luck with making your song!

yeah is that even possible to do in audacity? if so i would be interested

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[quote quote="MagicSpud7411":57uyndfs]Yh guys, its easy in audacity, tis is what you need to do……………….:
step 1- find the full song you want the acapella from with good quality

step 2-Fin an instrumental of that song with equal quality

step 3 – using audacity you need to invert the instrumental…….Effects/invert

step 4- play the inverted track on the top of the full track using audacity once again, and it should come out with just the vocal [/quote:57uyndfs]

aaaah.. So thats how u do it :O

tnx

DJ Coppy wrote:

Well, it didnt really work as magicspud7411 said.. I guess that is only 1 step of a bigger process. It did lower all the elements in the song but it didnt delete them completely. Anyway, I saw 1 guy on yt explaning how to separate the vocals from the track. He zoomed in on the file (in the music editing prog he used.. i dunnot rembemr wot) and then he just simply erased everything that was not the vocals. Its kinda hard to explain.. Srry. but if i find that vid, im sure gonna post it in here.

Yeah that video sounds incredible if you find it let me know mate. Ill keep my eyes open.