Audacity Forum

They're playing all at once because you have them one above the other on the timeline. You can SOLO any one of them with the buttons on the left and then just that one will play. MUTE works, too You probably want the Time Shift tools (left and right arrow button) and shift track two to the right so ...

You can open the file in Audacity and use the normal editing tools to get rid of the trash in the middle. Open the show and use drag-select and zoom tools to find the beginning of the trash. Plant a label there. Zoom into the end of the trash and plant another label there. Zoom out enough to see bot...

You did say one thing that got my attention. "plug all the microphones into a USB hub." We've been traditionally leery about doing that. Did they say that, or are you assuming you can do that? USB is not full duplex and the channel has to switch back and forth to do its job. A hub has to m...

<<<I could set Amplify for -3dB instead of my normal -2dB setting.>>> You can try that, but nobody can hear a one dB change. To get a no-question reduction in volume, you're talking about four, five, and six dB volume shifts and that may not be enough. To double the volume could need as much as a 20...

<<<approximate equal perceived loudness and be an improvement on the typical "amplify" or "normalize" functions.>>>

Normalize and Amplify are math tools never intended to manage loudness by themselves. You're comparing two different classes of tools.

Koz

<<<I don't like compression, but I DO want "equal" volume. What do I do?>>> The same thing radio stations do. Apply dynamic range compression and Chris's is the best. As you noted, making the peaks of the waveforms come out even doesn't do a thing for you if you're after loudness control. ...

<<<But, how do I call it up? It is not listed in the Audacity effects?>>> Yes, this wasn't the most straightforward. I think he called it "Compress Dynamics." It should be at the bottom of the effects list. We poked fun at him about this. "You know," we said, "everybody call...

There's a setting for that in the Windows Control Panel. Windows Control Panel http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mixer_Toolbar_Issues#Using_the_Control_Panel As I recall, on the Playback side, you have to select whatever your recording device is. This shouldn't affect what Audacity is doi...

Question Marks have meaning to Windows, too. The list of universal perfect characters is pretty simple: Upper and lower case letters, numbers, underscore and dash. That's it. All other characters can get you into hot water in one or more of the various operating systems. The evil characters aren't a...

Then Normalize isn't going to do you any good at all, but Chris is still in there punching. <<<If I want Amplify to amplify as much as possible without clipping>>> Chris will produce a very significantly louder show without any apparent damage, and certainly without clipping. And to the bargain, it ...