How to change original sound on TikTok

TikTok has taken over the social media world and has become a mainstay for its hilarious original sounds. Here’s a guide on how to make your own sound on TikTok.

TikTok has continued to become one of the most important and most popular social media apps to exist, making several of its top creators overnight superstars.

What was first an app centered around creating and sharing dances and lipsyncs to top songs has become an entire ecosystem all its own. But its unique and original sounds are still very much at the core of what makes TikTok great.

Here’s a guide on how to make sounds of your own on the app. Can you create the next viral sensation?

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How to make a sound on TikTok

In order to get started making your own sound on TikTok, you’ll need to follow these simple steps:

1. Hit the plus (+) icon at the bottom of your smartphone. This will be visible right when you open the app.
2. Give your phone the necessary permissions.
3. Hold the red circle at the bottom of the screen to record a video. The audio from this video will become your original sound.
4. Click the red checkmark and next button to get to the posting screen. Fill in any captions or hashtags you’d like to use and post your video to TikTok!
5. Once posted, view your video and click the bottom right spinning record to access the sound.
6. Click “Add to Favorites” on the sound to save it for later, or you can click “Use this sound” at the bottom to record a new TikTok using this sound. You can also share this with your friends from this screen!

Once you have completed these steps, you will have your own original sound on TikTok that others will be able to use as well, if it were to catch on and become viral.

• Read More: How to sync videos to a sound on TikTok

Your sound can be anything, including music, voiceover, and whatever else your phone picks up while recording. So, be careful to include everything you’ll want when you go to hit record!

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How to rename your TikTok sound

If you want to make sure your sound is simple to remember so that people can easily search and find it on the app, you may want to think about renaming it.

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Fortunately, renaming your sound is a simple process. Simply do as follows:

1. Go to your sound by clicking on the video you made it with, and then tapping the spinning record icon in the bottom right.
2. At the top of the page by the name of your sound, click the small pencil icon.
3. On the next page, type whatever you want to call your sound in the ‘Enter a sound title’ area. TikTok warns that ‘titles can only be edited once.’
4. Then, tap ‘save.’

How to add voiceover to a sound on TikTok

Once you have a sound made, there’s even more you can do with it on TikTok, including adding a voiceover to it. To add this voiceover, do the following:

1. Hit the plus (+) icon at the bottom of your smartphone. This will be visible right when you open the app.
2. Give your phone the necessary permissions.
3. Hold the red circle at the bottom of the screen to record a video. The audio from this video will become your original sound.
4. Click the red checkmark and next button to get to the posting screen.
5. Click the Voiceover icon on the right of the screen.
6. From there, record whatever you would like to over the original sound. Ensure you have “Keep original sound” checked at the bottom left.
7. Click Save, then proceed to finalize the details of posting your TikTok.

With these steps established, you should be able to not only post sounds to TikTok, but add some flair to them as well with custom voiceovers.

For more on how to navigate the app, be sure to check out our other dedicated guides and tips to TikTok like how to edit sounds or make TikTok sounds alarm clocks on your smartphone!

Sounds are one of the best ways to boost your videos and participate in trends on TikTok, and there are several options when it comes to customizing how the sound appears in your video.

TikTok ‘sounds’ are quite simply snippets of songs or original audios that can be used by anyone across the platform in the background of their own videos. Sometimes this is in the form of hits from the charts, memes, and sometimes just the raw audio from another video that people are repurposing.

Many dance and lip-sync trends are centered around these popular sounds, often with people zoning in on specific sections or verses in songs as the basis for their videos.

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However, when adding sounds to videos in the editor, things can sometimes get a little confusing, making it harder to get the exact part of the song you want. Thankfully, the process isn’t overly complicated.

How to add a TikTok sound to your video

Adding sounds to your videos is a simple process.

1. Launch TikTok and open the editor by clicking the plus button.
2. Tap ‘add sound’ at the top of the screen.
3. Touch the sound you want to use, and click the checkmark to add it. You can also do this after filming a video by clicking the ‘sounds’ button in the bottom left corner.

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How to edit TikTok sounds

Once you’ve added a sound, you may find you need to make some adjustments. To edit which section of the sound you’re using:

1. Click the ‘trim’ button on the right side of the screen, (if you have already filmed your video, the trim button is located in the ‘sounds’ section.)
2. Drag the slider to adjust which bit of the song you want your video to start at.
3. Tap the checkmark to confirm.

To edit the volume of the sound:

1. Once you’ve finished filming your video, click the sounds button in the bottom left corner.
2. Select the volume tab, and use the slider to adjust how loud the sound is in comparison to the original audio.
3. Tap the screen again to confirm.

The steps are fortunately very simple, and make customizing your video and adjusting it to the way you want it much easier.

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