1 - Start ~3 mins
Your thirty-second clip has music and nothing else. Today you add the thing that turns a clip into a piece of media: a voice.
AudioMass keeps nothing after the tab closes, so load your exported copy. If you do not have one, download the practice clip again and trim it to thirty seconds — about four minutes of work.
Download the practice audio file (MP3). It opens with a creaking door for roughly ten seconds, then music. That creak is what you cut first.
2 - Why Balance Matters More Than Volume ~5 mins
When a voice and music are heard at the same time, the problem is almost never that the voice is too quiet. It is that the music is too loud underneath it.
| What you hear | What is actually wrong | The fix |
|---|---|---|
| Cannot make out the words | Music competing with the voice | Bring the music down under the voice, not the voice up |
| Voice sounds harsh or crackly | Gain pushed too high | Undo and use a smaller increase |
| Music jumps when the voice stops | Level changed abruptly | Change it across a few seconds, not instantly |
Gain above about 300% will distort. If it sounds crackly, that is why — undo rather than living with it.
3 - Hands-on: Record Your Voice ~13 mins
Record a short line of your own and put it into the clip. Keep it to one or two sentences — a title, an introduction, or a line that sets the scene.
Plan the words first and say them once out loud. Recording while deciding what to say is what produces thirty seconds of “um”.
4 - Hands-on: Balance the Levels ~12 mins
Now make the two work together: the voice clear, the music present but underneath it.
5 - Hands-on: Export and Check It ~5 mins
Export it, then listen to the exported file rather than the editor.
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