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it passes for Noise floor?? Not that surprising. The motor went off. That's not the good news. That means you have an unstable studio. By the way, that's an AT2020USB, not what you said. Suspended? http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MBP_StarbucksStudioShoot-500w.jpg Sitting on the desk? How did you...

Sometimes, you can have one "thing" making noises and it will produce interference with several tones an octave apart. Not yours. It sounds like mixing rocks.

Koz

If you have trouble hearing that low pitch rumble (I'm serious, cement mixer), you may have the second common home studio problem. Bad earphones or speakers.

How are you listening?

Koz

Turn off the cement mixer? Thank you for the good sample. I couldn't do it, either. I prepared a boosted sound clip of your noise. The little periodic sharp tick isn't real. What in your house could be making that noise? It's bad enough I don't think anybody's going to be able to get rid of it witho...

Any thought what you're going to do about your tinkly mouth noises?

Koz

The notch filter only has two entry boxes when you launch it.
You have to run that tool twice. It does a different job each pass.

Koz

Those are short forms. My knuckles are gnarly from typing all that out every time. I did write that in longer form: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=96103 That pile of numbers in my post (and that document) fits into each effect panel as you open the tool. To take the worst one...

I do have CFL lamps as well as LED. Maybe one of those is the mystery noise. Start recording a sound test, light a candle (if you need one) and turn all the lights off. Semi-announce what you're doing. "Here goes the desk lamp!" Do you have the microphone on a towel and book so it doesn't...

I found ACX and RMS Normalize and downloaded them but have tried every which way to install/execute and I'm stuck. You got semi-lucky. In working with one of other posters, it turns out some Macs like to change the filename of the plugins that download. It's not enough of the time to ring bells, bu...

Are the originals MP3? If they are, you're new MP3 is going to have higher compression sound damage than the originals. Audacity makes a whole new one, it doesn't manage the old ones. It sounds like you're looking for one of the pure MP3 editors. They can do limited editing tricks without taking the...