Audacity Forum

Did you record a performance on the built-in laptop microphone while you were typing? There's no good way to get rid of that noise other than selecting each key noise one at a time and applying Amplify or other filter. I know of no way to start a filter at the beginning of the show and have it autom...

I have a job where I am going to perform some cleanup on a client supplied clip. Then I'm going to cause to appear the equalizer and filter curves I used to a client who will take it from there and do production on more clips taken from the same show. How do I do that with noise reduction? I will cr...

The job is to trim an arbitrary amount of work from a show. The show is 48000, 16-bit, Stereo. I changed the Audacity Preferences to 48000, 16-bit, Stereo and turn dithering off. Delete x seconds from the end of the show. I Export a new file at 48000, 16-bit, Stereo and do I get a bit for bit copy e...

If you can hear yourself in real time through the speakers but the sound isn't getting into the computer, then the sound card may be fried. Can you plug your iPod of other sound player into the Line-In port (blue, right?) and does that record funny, too? Do you get the effect if you don't plug anyth...

Audacity defaults to Microsoft WAV format because it's unquestionably recognized by all three computer platforms. Try to play an AIFF on a Windows machine. "Here. Let me email you my sound file ....oh, wait." The quality of the music is exactly the same, but AIFF allows (I believe) additio...

Even if you end with a song of the length that you want, it's possible you won't like the file size. Audacity doesn't really edit MP3 files. It converts them to a high-quality internal format and then exports a whole new MP3 when you're done (assuming you installed the lame software). That means you...

MP3 is the delivery format. That's the file you put on your iPod to listen to the work. You can't back up from MP3 damage. You can give freebies away in barely adequate MP3 quality with the promise of much higher quality delivery if somebody starts writing checks. It's very difficult or almost impos...

One reason sound levels suddenly go way up for no reason is you like to record YouTube. The Windows settings to tell Audacity to record internet audio and the settings to do complex live, real-time production are very different. If you leave the Windows settings to record YouTube and start recording...

My slider would not have gone below 20Hz, but that's just me. And a job I had recently had digital trash centered around 13 KHz, which I can enter manually. Is there a slider for dB reduction? You get the frequency and Q factor (I learned it as "Quality," the ratio of width to height) exac...

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