Vocals

The voice is the part listeners judge first. These pieces cover the chain from a clean recording to a tuned, balanced vocal, and name the plugins that make each step easier.

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How to autotune in Audacity

Audacity has no built-in pitch correction, so this guide installs the free Graillon 3 through MuseHub, adds it as a realtime effect in Audacity 4, sets the key, dials a natural fix or the hard-tuned effect, and exports — plus which other free tuners still load in Audacity 4 and the mistakes that make tuning sound wrong.

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How to record audio in Audacity

To record audio in Audacity 4, plug in your microphone and pick it under Audio setup ▸ Recording device. Set the level so your voice peaks between −18 and −6 dB, select a mono track and press Record (R). The take lands on the selected track; Record on new track leaves the existing tracks alone, which is how you layer a second part over the first.

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How to remove vocals in Audacity

Audacity 4 has no vocal remover effect, so here are the three routes that work: the built-in center-cancel with Invert, the free OpenVINO Music Separation effect in Audacity 3, and a stem-separation plugin from MuseHub — with the exact menus, one comparison table and an honest account of what each can and cannot do.

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How to change speed, tempo and pitch in Audacity (including Audacity 4)

Speed, tempo and pitch are three different jobs in Audacity. This guide covers each one in Audacity 4 (the clock handles, the pitch and speed dialog, BPM math, reset and render), fixing a tape or record that ran at the wrong speed, slowing a song down to practise, and the Audacity 3 routes.

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How to remove breaths, mouth clicks and room echo in Audacity

Noise reduction leaves some sounds alone. How to lower breaths with Clip gain, fix mouth clicks with Click removal and Repair, take out squeaks, coughs and chair noise, and what really helps against room echo in Audacity 4.

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