Audacity Forum

on Audacity it's nothing but a flat straight line. But the cursor is moving? You obliquely referred to this, but Apple > System Preferences > Sound > Input. Where is the input volume control and where do the volume indicator lights bounce? This is the exact opposite of what you're supposed to be do...

My Gain level is set to 6/11.

Where are the green and yellow lights when you announce?

Did you ever do an actual formal forum voice test? Read down the blue links. They're very short.

https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/Tes ... _Clip.html

You can post that here on the forum.

Koz

You should probably stay here. This will give us handy history without going all over looking for the original posts.

Koz

I have an equalizer setting that helps a tiny bit. I'll figure how to send it over any minute now. You have to use Filter Curve. Graphic Eq doesn't have enough range.

Koz

It sounds more like a synthesized voice than background noise. When someone asks for help to clean up a selection, we use studio or broadcast as the standard. If your original work wasn't up to that, then we have two problems and have to choose. It's not unusual for home recordings to have multiple...

Maybe post somewhere we don't have to agree to anything.

Koz

Adding to the end of the existing track and starting a new track is the difference between R and SHIFT+R. They're reversible in Audacity Preferences. The default used to be R would add a new track under the others. In the face of massive objection, the default was changed to adding to the end of the...

deleted it by accident

How? Both pressing the DEL key and [X] the track respond to Edit > UNDO. If you closed Audacity before you saved anything, then yes, the show is history. That deletes the caches and work files. There is no UNDO for that.

Koz

What are you recording?

Koz

The main thing that you need is an actor that can pull off a suitable accent. What he said. In the first three words you can tell Georgia, Texas, New York, or New England. Chicago and west coast are harder. No or flat accent. When they pick up it's: " OP ray terrrrrrr ." "Good mornin...