Applying TSE BOD plugin settings to a track

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I recorded my bass raw through a 3.5mm to 1/4 converter, and I downloaded the free TSE BOD sansamp plugin, which sounds great on the track.

The problem is, when I highlight the part I want to have the sansamp’s settings and click apply, the resulting track sounds like absolute garbage. The best way I can describe it is, it’s as if there’s two identical tracks playing, one slightly off-time from the other. Also everything is pulsing. It sounds great previewing the track with the plugin enabled until then though. I am using version 2.1.3 on Windows 7.

Here is a video of the problem: https://streamable.com/3xh5s

I am brand new to pretty much all of this. I really like the tone I get from this plugin, and hope there is an easy for for this. Thanks in advance!

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The echo is because the effect is being applied twice - once when you clicked the “Apply” button, and again when you play again with the effect still enabled.

After applying the effect (clicking the “Apply” button) you need to either:
a) Close the effect
b) Untick the “Enable” checkbox in the effect window (so that the effect is bypassed)
c) Make a new selection if you want to use the effect on another part of the project.

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Try reducing the buffer size from 8192 to 4096 …
BOD options.gif

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Thank you so much! This fixed it!

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That will reduce the delay time of the echo, but if you are still doing what you did in the video, you are still listening to the effect acting twice.

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On default settings the BOD plugin sounds OK in preview, but when applied mangles the sound: when replaying the effected audio with BOD disabled or closed it’s still glitchy. Apparently BOD applies ridiculously-high resampling, (pointless on a distortion effect), which may be responsible for the glitching.

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It definitely did sound like the effect was being applied twice when I tried to do this initially on 8192 buffer size, but I when I followed your instructions, unchecked enable and closed the plugin interface after clicking apply, the problem persisted. Using Trebor’s fix of changing to 4096 buffer size has remedied the problem I had in the video. Now the track sounds exactly as it did in the preview. Doesn’t sound like it’s being applied twice anymore, provided I don’t have the plugin interface open while previewing.

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Same exact problem here - reducing the buffer to 4096 fixed it - thanks!