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Thanks, I'll check those videos out once I get home! Along with some of those threads. Thanks for the info, I'm currently recording at around -3dBs so I should definitely lower my mic input. I was under the impression that I should sing very close to my mic, at least that has been my experience using stage mics, but I am using a Shure KSM9. It seems much more full sounding when I'm close to it but it's a very fine line between "full" and "clipping".

Wow, I've watched probably fifteen videos on mastering in Audacity and somehow haven't run into one that gives that exact information (at least in a way that I understood). I'll also look into Reaper for sure. Thanks for the advice!

Hey, my other thread was instantly unviewable for whatever reason (I got a bunch of lines of code thrown at me when I posted it so I think it's a bug) so hopefully that doesn't happen to this thread as well but I am trying on a new browser :). I'd just like some tips on singing this song in general but especially falsetto. The song is "Somewhere Only We Know", by Keane. I felt as though I fell a bit flat on some parts but a little less than a half step. Hard for me to tell (my ears are pretty damaged unfortunately!) If anyone is familiar with how to master songs in Audacity I'd love some advice on that too as I attempted to master this and while I think it mostly worked, there seem to be some audio artifacts I can't get rid of at seemingly random points in the song. Thanks!

Thanks for the response, I have just recently seen a few of your YouTube videos and loved your video explaining away mixed voice, it helped me quite a bit actually. To be honest I have not been training regularly at all, for the last two years my only training was being in a choir and singing karaoke. The last month or so I have been spending an hour a day practicing though, doing "May May May" up and down the pentatonic scale as a warmup. then doing sirens, before doing "Mee may mah moh moo" down to my lowest range and "Ba ba ba" from my high chest range until the top of my falsetto. Sorry, a bit hard to put warmups into words but I hope it was clear! I want to sing Jazz/Alternative mostly, so I I really want a smooth falsetto for songs like "Creep" but a strong enough falsetto to do pop songs as well. I did lower the key of this song by 2 steps so that I could hit it at a more comfortable part of my range while still practicing falsetto. I can hit these notes (except the high note in "rolling in the dee^ee^eep") in head voice but due to not being able to sing that highest note with head voice, and not being able to do runs from falsetto to head voice very well, I just stuck with falsetto until the phrase, "Had my heart inside your hand". EDIT: Oh, yeah the reason I'm singing Adele is because I'm practicing runs (not sure if that's a good word for it but I think they're called melismas?) right now and there are lots of easy runs her songs. I'm not quite ready for the more complex stuff yet. Hopefully what I said throughout this post was clear, it's kind of all over the place. EDIT 2: Also I'm curious on how to add notes to my head voice, I see a lot of singers hitting notes much higher than my own while clearly not using falsetto. Is it just the result of a ton of practice? Genetics? Or is it a technique that must be taught/observed in order to reproduce it? Currently my highest non-falsetto note is G#4 but it's not reliable so my real highest is probably G4. Are there any specific exercises that are really good for increasing that range? On the flip-side, I'm singing bass in a choir right now (because I'm the only guy in this choir we are doing SAB music, I'm usually a tenor) and need to hit an F2, which is a full note lower than my current G2. I see tons of exercises online on improving lower range but I guess I'm looking for another opinion on that. My apologies for all the questions, no need to hit them all. I am very grateful for your time!

can someone critique my cover of "Rolling in the Deep" please? I'm practicing vocal runs/falsetto and would love any advice I can get please. A few things, At "We could've had it alllllll" my falsetto wavers every single time I try this. It's very low in my falsetto range but I can't switch to mixed voice that quickly. What is a god exercise that will help me transition quickly? I'm 20, male, and have been singing for about two years on and off. I think my breathing is okay at this point but I had some trouble breathing around the halfway point of this song until "We could've had it all". Thanks!