Audacity Forum

WAV is good. I think Audacity still defaults to Audio CD quality: 44100, 16-bit, Stereo (or Mono). Projects are more likely to encounter problems if only because they're more complex. There's more moving parts. You will need a Project if you have to save multiple tracks with odd effects and high com...

A note that wildly varying volume in a voice performance will not respond to RMS Normalize. That's where the as-you-go compressors are valuable. Also note, if you weave in and out from a directional microphone during your performance, the proximity effect will change the quality of your voice enough...

If you didn't do very much computer work after you deleted it, Windows machine will sometimes respond to "Un-Delete" or Recovery programs. The idea is that Windows doesn't actually delete files. It just marks them for death. If the machine needs the space bad enough, it starts dismembering...

I don't think you can make a new AUP file. If it's raw, unedited Mono recording, you might be able to use the time/date stamps to put the files back together. http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/recovering_crashes_manually.html If it's a stereo raw recording, you may be able to recover it, but the Le...

actually makes up to 99.9% of full-scale) Yes, I know the magic that happens around "0dB". So it may do what I want then. If I intentionally put the show peaks at -3dB and apply a limiter, it might create a "denser" show with the peaks (we assume more of them now) at -3dB. 2.2.1...

You can get Audacity to produce a mix-down track without exporting a sound file.

Tracks > Mix > Mix and Render to a New Track.

(That location may be a little wonky)

Koz

Your info panel claims Windows 10.

Which three-number Audacity are you using and for which OS?

Koz

I was playing a song on Audacity

How? Were you listening to the little speakers on your laptop? Describe what you were doing. We have to build your system in our imaginations.

Koz

So it's not really "Make-Up Gain." It's Amplify. Make-Up Gain would return the peaks where they were before the Limiter.

Koz

The smaller Behringer devices go to the trouble to say they use the same good quality microphone electronics as their larger consoles.

Koz