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DC Removal is not perfect. It only works on natural sounds which naturally settle at "zero" DC. Any DC Offset in this case is generally caused by a broken microphone or preamp. That's not a natural sound. That's a data construction with no nature at all. You can get rid of it the "cla...

One more. Make a bad recording. Unplug the Snowball and play it again. Better? Did it change?

Koz

What's the show? Are you speaking, singing, playing an instrument?

Koz

What's the sound system like? Does it happen if you listen on headphones? Can you as a test?

Koz

It is based on the actual moon. It's a metaphor for an undesirable event that might appear every 30 days or so. Almost impossible to troubleshoot. A far older metaphor is "top-dead-center" where a single-cylinder farm motor would occasionally stop at the end of the work day with the moving...

If this was a mono original RAW capture, then you are a candidate for Disaster Recovery. It uses the time and date stamps to rearrange the little AU files. See if there's anything in here. This assumes a missing AUP file and a mono raw capture. http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/recovering_crashes_m...

There's a 2GB legacy limit to WAV files.

Three hour stereo WAV (Microsoft) works out to 1.91GB.
44100, 16-bit, Stereo

So mono would work out to six hours. Past six hours you're not doing production any more, you're recording surveillance and the rules change.

Koz

I negligently moved the data(.au) files from their original location and can't remember where that location was

What was the goal? Were you trying to solve a problem, or just messing around? It's scary that we could recover your original problem.

Koz

If this was a raw capture, then it is recommended you Export a WAV (Microsoft) sound file immediately at the end of the performance. I think the mono limit on that is six hours, but I need to check.

Koz

Is the Project an Edit or a RAW Capture? Open the AUP file in a text editor (don't save anything) and read it. There should be a listing called projname=" . That's what the original show was called. Screen Shot 2017-12-28 at 20.17.28.png My show was called MyMusic and this is how it looks. http...