Audacity Forum

wow, Steve. Great reply. Thank you. So here is my quandary. I edit voice over work. Usually nothing more that simple editing and occasional volume leveling. The provided audio is almost always 16 bit wav files recorded in either Audition or Sound Forge and sometimes Garage Band or other. And while I...

I first noticed this when I brought wav files created in Audacity into Sound Forge. Even when I generate silence in Audacity, I'm seeing a noise floor (indicated on the meters) of around -72db. Seems like I should see not indication of audio at all from silence. Silence or gating in Sound Forge yiel...