Mixing & mastering
Balancing a mix and finishing a master are learnable skills. These guides explain what each processor does before recommending one, so you can hear why a setting works instead of copying it.
- Audacity
- Podcasting
- Mixing & mastering
How to make audio louder in Audacity: normalize, compress and limit
Which of Audacity’s five volume effects to use and when — Normalize, Amplify, Compressor, Limiter and Loudness Normalization — with the steps for each in the order that works, the loudness targets Apple Podcasts and Spotify publish, the mistakes that turn louder into distorted, and the plugins that go past the built-ins.
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