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How to Find the Key of a Song
Understanding how to find the key of a song is an essential skill for new DJs who have not yet trained their ears. Whether you are trying to play along with a track, remix a song, or transpose a ...
A Beginner's Guide to Harmonic Mixing
Most new DJs are happy to master the basics like beat matching, but at some point you need to learn a new technique to take it to the next level. This advanced technique is called harmonic mixing or ...
How to Remove Digital Clicks and Pops from Audio
In the dim light of her home studio, a podcaster leans into the microphone, her voice narrating distant galaxies. As she reviews the recording, her heart skips a beat - a sharp click interrupts the ...
How to Mix Tracks: tips from a DJ
The music flow in the club never stops for a second. One track flows smoothly into another, the rhythm becomes your pulse, and the melody the breath of the night. This is how a good mix works. It ...
What is the Difference Between Pitch and Key?
Imagine you're sitting at the mixing desk, ready to mix. The tracks are loaded, the BPM matches, but something's still not right. The melody of the first track "doesn't want" to flow into the ...
How to Change the Pitch of Your Voice
Your voice is more than a tool - it’s an instrument. Whether you’re delivering a speech, performing on stage, or simply aiming to communicate with clarity and confidence, mastering the ability ...
How to Change Pitch without Sounding like a Chipmunk
Back in the day, when Alvin and the Chipmunks hit cinemas, this voice was the bee's knees. If you want to amuse your friends, it's easy to achieve the chipmunk effect, but much more difficult to get ...![Top 3 BPM Analyzers for Windows [2024]](/images/thumbs/top3-bpm-analyzers-for-windows-thumb-21-160.png)
Top 3 BPM Analyzers for Windows [2024]
In musical terminology, the tempo of a composition refers to the speed or pace at which it is performed. It is typically measured in beats per minute (BPM) and can significantly impact the overall ...
How to Create an Acapella From any Song
Creating an a appella version of a song serves a variety of purposes and is sought after by singers, DJs, and musicians for a variety of reasons. Acappella versions are used for vocal and production ...
How to Isolate Vocal from a Song
Any musical composition is made up of many components. The vocals are mixed with the instrumental elements of the song such as drums, guitars and synthesizers. But sometimes the opposite operation ...
Fade In And Fade Out Audio
Sharp sounds are unpleasant to most people, and the main irritating factor is not the volume, but their suddenness. Who among you has not flinched from an unexpected call or music suddenly playing ...
How to slice audio into equal parts
When you're working with long audio files, it's common to represent them as one large file. This lets you apply effects and normalize volume in one go, then split the file into separate parts. You ...
Best way to downsample audio
Audio downsampling is the most popular method of changing the sampling rate. This is easily explained, because this is the easiest way to reduce the size of an audio file. In the previous article, ...
How and why to do audio upsampling
Higher sampling rates do not always provide benefits in all situations. The size of the audio file is directly proportional to this parameter, while not everyone will notice the difference in sound ...
How to effectively remove background noise from audio recordings
Want to know how to get rid of background noise in audio recordings? Here is a simple and highly effective way to remove noise in the WaveCut Audio Editor. Whether you recorded the audio yourself or ...
The evolution of vocal removal apps
The separation of a song into its music and vocals has long been a source of excitement for composers and DJs. It has also fascinated ordinary people who are used to spending a Saturday night in a ...
Mixing audio tracks in three different ways
I rarely have to search for apps in a hurry, because during a pandemic, a computer with a full set of software is always at my fingertips. Today was a sunny day and I could not resist going out of ...
Difference between Loudness and Peak Normalization
First, let's define what normalization is and what is it for? If we use technical terms, it means bringing the sound level in the file to normal values. It sounds unclear, what are normal levels and ...
What is an Audio Compressor And How Does It Work?
Many novice musicians and sound engineers have heard of the "compressor" and its wondrous possibilities. Let's start with the terminology, which is necessary to learn how to master such effect as a ...
How to Create Silence in Your Audio File
What could be simpler than silence, however, it has some curious applications in sound editing. We will consider three ways of working with silence, as well as situations when its use is ...
How to change the speed of a song in 4 different ways
Sometimes we may need to slow down or speed up a song. This comes in handy when learning new moves in dance class or learning a song on the guitar because the slower speed helps you pick up the ...
How to Change the Pitch of a Song or Music Sample
Have you ever started a song only halfway through realizing that the melody is too high or too low for you? Maybe it will sound better for your voice when you sing it a whole step lower. There is an ...
How to Edit Individual Channels of Audio Files
In some cases you may need to edit individual channels of a stereo file or a multichannel audio track. Most often this is due to different volume levels. The same happens when restoring recordings - ...
How to Merge MP3 Files with Ease
Podcasters and musicians usually face the task of combining several audio recordings into one, but for them it is not a problem. For ordinary users who have already received ready-made MP3 files and ...
3 Proven Ways to Trim MP3 Files
Trimming an MP3 file is a fairly common task. Any recording, be it human speech or streaming, always contains silence or extraneous sounds at the beginning and end. Therefore, podcasters, bolgers ...
Anatomy of a Waveform
What we perceive is sound is a vibration. The motion of air on our eardrums is translated by our brain as speech, m usic or just noise. Larger motions of air are perceived as louder, faster motions ...
About Noise and Noise Reduction
In an ideal world every audio recording would capture sound in its purest form. But reality introduces unwanted distortions – collectively known as noise – that ruin the listening experience. ...
How to transpose music to a different key
Transposing a piece of music is all about changing its key. It's not the most tricky part of music theory, but you do need to know about the different key signatures and modes to get it right. That ...