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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
The MP3 file format has long become an industry standard and is used everywhere. Some users prefer to store albums in one audio file, and use an additional CUE file to store information about ...
3 Proven Ways to Trim MP3 Files
If you have a large MP3 file and want to trim it to the desired length or remove silence at the beginning and end of a song, then you can use an audio editor that allows you to do this work easily ...
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
We don't live in a perfect world - many things conspire to introduce unwanted sound into your treasured recordings in the form of noise. Noise is a term which covers many different things - there ...
How to transpose music to a different key
Changing the key of a piece of music is called transposing the music. Transposing music is not the most difficult element of music theory, but it does require a mastery of the various key signatures ...