Save Audio To Target Loudness In Audacity

[@scottjones6624]

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[@HomebrewAudioRecording]

Thanks so much for your kind words, Scott!!

[@geezer2tech154]

I was having the same problem in Audacity with several clipped waveforms following loudness normalization. Strangely there is a paucity of information about how to deal with this. I am grateful that you provided this excellent tutorial on the subject. Thanks!

[@HomebrewAudioRecording]

You're welcome! Glad it was helpful.

[@Ajboss26-x6q]

Thank you very much sir

[@HomebrewAudioRecording]

You're welcome!

[@kristencropley7956]

Thank you thank you thank you 😊 for HOURS I was looking for this info.. hours... straight to the point.. much appreash.. 😄

[@HomebrewAudioRecording]

Woohoo! so glad I could help!😃

[@thefictionxwelive]

Thank you for the helpful video!

[@HomebrewAudioRecording]

You're welcome!

[@CourtWatchAu]

Great Lesson thankyou

[@HomebrewAudioRecording]

Thanks!

[@burayabakarlarpodcast]

Wow! Thank you so much

[@LauraShanae]

I don't have the "Loudness Normalization" effect available by default in Audacity. How do we get this feature?

[@HomebrewAudioRecording]

Which version of Audacity do you have?

[@mythulu]

@@HomebrewAudioRecording I updated to the latest version immediately before commenting.

[@HomebrewAudioRecording]

@@mythulu I just updated after reading your comment - the very latest version should be 3.2.1. And it's there. Loudness Normalization should appear in the Effect dropdown menu in between Invert and Noise Reduction. Are you looking in the Effect dropdown menu across the top? Because if you're looking in the new "Effects" button on the track (the left side of the track), then you wouldn't see it there because none of the built-in effects are there.

[@LauraShanae]

@@HomebrewAudioRecording Found it. I had to open my Plugin Manager, enable all plugins. Then the option was available under Effect > Volume & Compression. No idea why my menu looks different from yours. Thank you for your help.

[@HomebrewAudioRecording]

@@LauraShanae Excellent. Glad you got it sorted!

[@PaulFiggiani]

Loudness Normalization proper consists of [1] Measurement [2] Gain offset relative to target [3] Limiting (if necessary.) The demonstrated Audacity L.normalization module lacks the capability to define a true peak ceiling. That's problematic. Also - I would recommend looking into a 'bus compressor'. Apply this style of dynamics compression non-aggressively before offline loudness normalization. This will help with optimizing speech intelligibility + circumvent potential excessive limiting [-paul.]

[@santoshgujar5237]

Thank you, Sir, 😇

[@HomebrewAudioRecording]

You're welcome!

[@santoshgujar5237]

@@HomebrewAudioRecording Thank you, Sir, you taught me soo many things, Thank you, Sir, 😇

[@HomebrewAudioRecording]

@@santoshgujar5237 Glad to be helpful!

[@santoshgujar5237]

@@HomebrewAudioRecording 😇

[@teatrumyslurpg]

It's interesting that your video is still -3.4 db on youtube. Fighting against youtube "normalization" is weird.

[@geezer2tech154]

I'm not sure what that -3.4 dB means. It says normalized, but it is not measuring LUFS, but dB. Does that mean that the peak loudness is at -3.4 dB?

[@DelapierceD]

What a nightmare