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I've gotten away with installing Audacity in its own Application folder. Screen Shot 2017-05-04 at 14.02.20.png You can get in minor trouble with plugins like that (too many), but for the most part it works. There is also a "Portable" technique where the installs are completely separate. I...

Maybe you're not recording the USB turntable. If you plugged the turntable in after you started using Audacity, Audacity won't see it. Restart Audacity or Transport > Rescan. You should not be "digitizing" the CDs. Use a CD ripper program to create a perfect digital WAV image of the music....

you might try Chris's Compressor. As with most automated processors, you can fake it out by accident. Make sure you have something other than dead silence for the first second of a show and try to avoid very large, unnatural volume swings. It doesn't handle those well. That's why it's not a Univers...

If you're doing a podcast, you might try Chris's Compressor. Chris is a full-on, completely automatic production processor. I use it to "tame" a download podcast and make it sound very like the processed broadcast version of the same show. https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/chriss-dynamic-co...

Do you have any words of wisdom about how to go about these sort of chapters Traditionally, that's done with microphone management. You can whisper or present sotto-voce, but do it really close to the microphone so you sound close and intimate at normal speaking volume. You can yell, too, but yell ...

That's it. We never used to be able to set RMS (Loudness) directly with any reliable tools, so we always had to work around the barn with indirect tools and hope to goodness everything came out right eventually. Not any more. flynwill developed a proof-of-concept RMS tool and steve developed a finis...

You didn't follow the rules. Effect > RMS Normalize > Effect > Limiter > Effect > Equalization: LF Rolloff.

Koz

I'd like to make the numbers easier to read on my weak eyes! Oddly, my change doesn't do that. I extend the range of the sound meters with Preferences > Interface > Meter dB range: 96dB. Then I grab the meter edges and push and pull until they fill the frame left to right. The other panels should s...

I am probably a bit too precise when it comes to reading the script exactly as written. Neither ACX nor Audacity have any horse in the race here. This is entirely between you and the client—and by extension, the audience. My favorite shows sound like the presenter is speaking to me, not me and 300 ...

Is it tomorrow there, or yesterday? I can't keep track of what happens at the date line. you shouldn't record in stereo Some people have to. Some digital adapters force you to record in Stereo and you have to take steps later to split your performance into Mono for processing and submission. You hav...