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Bubbly, distorted, honky voices are generally caused by overuse of Noise Removal, or possibly just using the tool wrong. Noise Reduction isn't an open-ended tool. You don't turn it loose on your show and go to lunch. It's a balancing act and shows can fall off. It's super important that your first s...

I think I'm going to delete your other post. Typically we'd like you to stick with one thread and then if needed, a senior elf will move the whole thing.
Koz

We like processes we can test. For example, we have tools and techniques to help you make a reading for an AudioBook and then we have testing tools to see how you did. We can't do that with subliminal works. There may be instructions for how to make a subliminal track, but we can't test if you got t...

I haven't installed Plugins before Then don't worry about it until you're at a stopping point. It's just a much more convenient form of what you're already doing. When you select the envelope tool, it will present two blue lines on the timeline. They're rubber bands. You can click on them and they ...

When I do the Amplify test after Normalizing, it shows 3.0 But if you do that to an older original raw recording , I bet it shows around 3.0 or very close to it. I also bet if you do that to your mystery raw recording, it's much louder than that, say closer to 1 or even 0.5. That would account for ...

P pause and Append Record (Shift-R) are the two known ways to continue at the end of an existing track. If you do create two tracks one above the other, there are ways to deal with that in post production. That's not deadly. Save an Audacity Project. Audacity will create a Project system (one AUP fi...

I changed the user name to "Jeffdevers", removing the e-mail domain.

A good thing all around. I wonder if they're going to be able to find their way back...

Koz

I must've been doing something repeatedly silly. That never happens to me. The Overdubbing tutorial has examples of three different hardware devices that allow "Perfect Overdubbing." You listen to the devices instead of the computer and they manage the headphone show such that there is no...

Now that it's too late. Never post a hot email address on the forum. We are a spam magnet. You don't see it, but behind the scenes, we delete many multiple postings trying to sell us ocean trips and kitchen cabinets in Manchester. I made the mistake of recording my podcast on an external device and ...

Is turning the volume down the only way to prevent this? Yup. As above, when you're under the protective umbrella of Audacity, that's not serious damage, but the instant you leave, the damage becomes apparent and it's permanent. It may not take much volume reduction to solve it. Leave Show Clipping...