Sound balance

[dahol]

Hi

I'm fairly new with this programme and have found it really good, however, I tried to record a message to play over the background music for just one slide, the sound did play but was hardly audible. What did I do wrong please?

Cheers

[Guest guru]

Hi dahol! Welcome to our forum!

You problem is very simple. The spoken message was recoded at a too low recording level. You can "Maximize" or better "Normalize" it with a little sound editor like Audacity (freeware, 1.3 MB, http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ ).

Maybe also the music was too loud there. With the same software, you can lower gradually the music few seconds before your comment starts, and raise it when your comment ends.

[dahol]

Hi Guido

Thanks for the reply I will give that a try, ita amazing how somethings are easy once someone tells you how

Cheers

[Guest guru]

to you, Dahol !!!

...with all my best wishes for a Happy Christmas!

[Alan Lyons]

Hi Dahol,

Your problem is ne which all who are new to Audio Visual face, but as Guido said it is easy to fix. Two things which will help, there should be about 20db (Deciebells) seperating the voice track and the music track. You should also record the voice just a little flat (less bass) this helps to seperate the two sounds. A good idea is to ask someone to listen to the final recording to see if it is ok. Rembember you know what you said , so it is easier for you to hear and understand the voice than it would be for some one else.

Good luck with your project,

Alan.

[dahol]

Hi Alan

Thank you for the info, its great that people really take the trouble to help out.

merry Christmas

Dahol