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searched around but didn't find answer.

Just updated audacity but it deleted my preferences. I did not select "reset preferences" upon install.

Found the preferences file. Is there any way to restore previous preferences?

How do you ensure it doesn't reset preferences/delete the old?

Thanks

Thought of that and tried but it's not effective in this case unless there's something I'm not seeing.

I'm editing, mixing two tracks - audience and main speaker. Two different mics. The audience portions vary in terms of best quality between the two mics. What I've been doing is manually adjusting audience volume (most commonly increasing) with both amplify effect and envelope tool. Audience track o...

Coo beans, thanks Trebor

Thanks. Of course, gotta use some cans to determine ;) I, of course, know there's no magic bullet. What I meant moreso was if there are some "go to" plugins or effects you use and/or would suggest aside from noise removal, compression, and maybe pseudo stereo - to elevate quality...add special touch...

Thanks Steve - really appreciate the thorough help. Good stuff.

When you catch another minute - what settings do you recommend on pseudo stereo? Do you rec any other plugins for stereo effect + also any plugins to just generally elevate quality of audio?

Different locations of audacity were conflicting - had it in both downloads folder and program files - so figured that out and fixed it so it opened the location that had the plugin. Ok - so if I want to edit/manipulate both tracks individually, best thing would be to duplicate each side of track af...

Thanks Steve. I would want to keep the audience section. I just downloaded and installed the plug in - unzipped the file and added to plugins but it's not showing up in audacity under effects or anything else. I double checked and it is in my plugins folder. Closed out and opened audacity multiple t...

Everyone, thanks for the input...I really appreciate it. Left side was main speaker and right side was different feed from audience. I guess I don't really need stereo, I was trying to find a way to mix it to make it sound more like stereo but the audience feed gets cut off at various points so it d...

Thanks for the input Koz.

That makes each side of the track only play on left and right sides though. Previously, each side of the track was set to mono in order to edit each.

Any other potential solutions