Audacity Forum

You can try the Envelope Tool (two white arrows and bent blue line). That allows you to change individual words and phrases as you wish.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tools_toolbar.html

Koz

Right then. Part of the application of Steve's Limiter is following it with Effect > Amplify to -3? Or is that only if I'm preparing client delivery? I accepted the latest submission and ran it through what I perceive to be the accepted process, and I got the -60 noise and the -3 peaks in good order...

This is a generic thing we wrote on how to transfer work to the computer. Follow the links to the appropriate section.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... to_cd.html

Koz

The two killer specifications are noise when you stop talking and loudness or density of the performance. In the case of noise, there are published specifications and processes to measure it. Loudness is a magical never-never land. Further, many times if you boost the volume and density of your perf...

What you did was hide massive clipping so Audacity couldn't find it. What's saving you is the damage isn't enough to be audible. If it was, you'd find that it didn't go away. Audacity flags clipping on the timeline. If the timeline doesn't overload Audacity can't find any damage. I think the last ch...

Do you get the rest of the Export options (attached)?
Koz

Does it actually show clipping, or does it show really dense waves up at 0dB?

Koz

Orphan Blocks is a bad sign. You can run Audacity in two different ways. There is a mode where Audacity uses external sound and music files right where they are. When their turn in the song comes, Audacity goes out, opens them up, uses them and then puts them back to bed. The advantage of this is sp...

It's File > Export. Audacity will not Save a sound file.

Koz

Hiss is deadly to remove particularly on music. On voices you can play timing tricks and hide some hiss behind that, but music is a problem. Your only option is with the UCA222 (or other variations and makers). The mixer instructions keep insisting you should be able to get the tunes from the USB sy...