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We have a digital supervisor who looks like that (Lauren, not Humphrey) and it's impossible not to think about it while she's telling you how to increase the speed and efficiency of your shadow layer spline render node.

Koz

I came up with an example of why this is so difficult to do in post production. If a large manly man and a little girl both said the word "woman," you would have no trouble telling who was who. But if they both hissed at you Sssss! it would be much more difficult to tell who was the man. T...

Some turntables had an Arm Lift lever or control. The turntable would life its arm and stop the platter at the end of the record. If the arm is clearly hitting the record and it still skates across, then there is no needle at the end of the cartridge. See here... http://www.proaudiosuperstore.com/st...

I can imagine what it is.

Where is the song coming from? Are you playing it live on your keyboard or MIDI music system?

Koz

That's not to say you can't get there from here. You can create two shows one above the other one at one equalization and one at the other. You can use the Envelope tools to dissolve between them at whatever rate or direction you want.

Koz

<<<Sound recorded via a USB mic is recorded and played back correctly FYI>>> That's a significant clue. The analog sound to digital bit converter is in the "sound card" in your computer. Every conventional microphone or analog sound signal has to go through that to get to Audacity or anyth...

<<<maybe folks who don't want to learn what the parameters are should be using some other plug in for compression.>>> Maybe not. At this writing, Chris is the only compressor that can do what it does. Make the show louder and even out the volume variations with almost complete transparency. You can'...

And I haven't actually tried this, but I'm betting the music is too quiet or the hiss level is too high for the noise gate to be effective. Do you have 'Play Tacks While Recording New Ones', 'Software Playthrough' or 'Hardware Playthrough' selected in Audacity Preferences? Turn them all off or desel...

<<<it reduces them to actual silence.>>> This is one of the not quite perfect tools used to rescue a noisy performance. This one falls apart if you have music with graceful, trailing notes that fall below the threshold. They get abruptly wacked off and can sound funny if you don't pay attention. We ...

Steve wrote Noise Gate to do something like that.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/download/file.php?id=1272

Koz