Audacity Forum

If you want a clean Windows program, the installer should ask you if you want to reset the preferences and settings. Say yes.

Koz

That's not right, either.

http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/

That's the only place you should be getting Windows Audacity from. Many people offer modified and bogus versions of Audacity, and having the version number scrambled is sometimes a good way to detect that.

Koz

You never said if the overdub worked. If you perform even without hearing yourself, do you appear on the recording? I'm guessing yes. You are "overdubbing," but in my words, not "Perfect Overdubbing." Perfect Overdubbing happens when you can hear yourself in live performance and ...

You don't have Effects > Add / Remove Plugins ? It's possible Effects Manager showed up in Audacity 2.1.2. You dropped both of those files into the Plugins folder? I've been finding that the need for DeEsser goes way up when you record badly and overuse Noise Reduction and other tools. SS sounds bec...

I don't know what causes this noise. It's not regular Yeti data noise that some people have. But I know you can get into trouble by constantly plugging and unplugging a USB connection. The gold plating on the little contacts eventually wears and the connection isn't as good. A Yeti works from the fi...

You've been using this setup for months and this is the first time it's happened? Laptop computer? Do you take it apart and put it together when you want to use it?

Koz

I select noise profile Doesn't matter. The skittering noise is moving in pitch and Noise Reduction doesn't work on constantly changing sounds. That's why it doesn't work on restaurant conversations or TV in the next room. Normal Noise Reduction isn't 50. It's 6 or 12. Also, if that's your natural s...

I got it to pass. sample3Patched.wav Screen Shot 2016-10-29 at 21.47.18.png Does that sound more natural? It does here and I got rid of that wine glass voice, too, but I had to do way too much work to get it there. This clip... sample3Background.wav Is a boosted version of your background noise. Any...

Which microphone does Skype use?

Koz

Looking forward to your first submission. I think up the post I pointed to the basic instructions for posting a test. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html It turns out over many uses, the most difficult part of shooting that thing is Room Tone or the two second silence. Fre...