Audacity Forum

A Quality Slider? Ask how many people know what bands are? I can design and build electronics and I'm not sure what bands are. The bands are the number of divisions that the frequency-range selected is split into, analogous to bands in an equalizer. According to Paul L the bands are equal height wh...

Universal Settings? ... How about lower limit at 3500 and upper limit at 15000? ... What's a good universal number of bands? Even for serious Essing damage such as this post. To obtain sufficient resolution to cope with whistles wherever they are (between 3k &15kHz). IMO would require the 35 band s...

horizontal zooming will enable an exact cut.

Can you get DeSibilator to remember two different settings when it's used? Yes it can have presets ... desibilator can have user-defined presets.png You'd have to do 2 passes: the high-resolution one first, then the blunter default, (if required). ... this particular performance. It has all the sym...

Rather than use a notch, could use the desibilator on the problem frequency-range, (8kHz-12kHz), with more bands than usual ...

May still need a second pass with the desibilator on the (broader) default settings.

1. Audio is from an old VHS transfer (childhood cartoon) 2. Clicking is probably not in the original but this is the best audio quality I could get from VHS transfer Look like the consequence of skipping : a little piece is absent. Audacity's spectral editing tools can lessen the click, but can't r...

JayStrauss wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:11 pm

When I try to record with Audacity, the Harmony Singer disappears from the mix ...

If "Harmony Singer" is a stereo effect, part or all of it could disappear if you're accidentally recording in mono, see here to check ... https://youtu.be/59QY0WL3f64?t=16

audacity clicks after sound.wav (1.1 MiB) I would bet it's a sound in the room, e.g. the valves of the brass instrument, or a creaky chair / floorboard. The click sound is definitely not digital: there's a hint of room-reverb when slowed down ... audacity clicks after sound, then quarter speed.wav ...

kozikowski wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 11, 2021 3:04 am

... I ticked something once which caused the waveform to stretch vertically and offset so "0" was at the bottom of the display. No negative waves were displayed.

Sounds like "half-wave" ...

"zoom* reset" undoes the "half-wave" display, (*even if you have not zoomed).

I have a digitization of a 40 year old 1st cassette tape recorded from radio, it sounds "OK" to me, listenable, apart from some annoying sharp almost static/distorted sound on the hi-hat. Not sure if it's just because of old tape / radio recording, but I suspect the digitization has some over the t...