Audacity Forum

Both of them seem to have arrived with my Audacity 1.3.7. Click Removal is a regular tool, but Clip Fix is an add-on at the bottom of the pile. I've never downloaded Clip Fix, so that's the only way it could have gotten here.

Koz

Before we get too throw-uppy over 96dB slope filters, I'm expecting them to actually sound terrible. The spectra analysis may look swell, but suddenly eliminating spectra like that is always fraught with problems. Two places filters really got a workout are FM broadcasting and Music CDs. FM Stereo b...

Audacity Projects are not sound files. Audacity always works uncompressed internally because you can't do complicated effects otherwise. Export to get another MP3, but please know that the MP3 process damages the sound and multiple MP3 passes damages the sound even more. If you don't need complicate...

You don't remove echoes. There's nothing for echo removal software to "grab." An echo is the actor's own voice bouncing off the walls and arriving late to the microphone compared to the direct voice. In effect, you're asking the software to remove the actor from herself. If the positioning...

Since you are one of the new people on Mac/Intel/Leopard, you have the wrong Audacity. As of the Leopard upgrade (OS-X 10.5), there are no stable Audacity 1.2 versions for us. Audacity 1.3.7 -- Mac http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/audacity-macosx-ub-1.3.7.zip That's the one I use for day to day ...

<<<I tried this but had problems exporting back to the original wav file.>>> While I understand the general desire to do this, it makes my teeth hurt because if anything evil happens anywhere in the process, you have no show. Literally, the show is a pile of rubble and you're back to unpacking the m...

Or, you can do the hardware thing, too. Short jumper cable between the Line-In and the Line-Out (Headphone). There's a perfectly valid reason Apple did that. A very large number of postings on the Windows forum have to do with people screwing up their sound. "How come I get echoes on my live re...

Groove distortion isn't noise and much of the rest of the trash isn't either. Noise is a single sound that stays constant through the course of the whole performance. It's good if it doesn't share the characteristics of the performers, too. That's why white noise or microphone hiss is so hard to rem...

You left me in the dust. I'm mostly Mac now and the next delivery of anthracite coal for the Windows machine isn't for another week.

Koz

There is a program called SoundSoap, whose later versions were quite good at "cleaning up" bad sound, but they insisted that the only way to get terrific noise reduction was to be really careful about getting the profile of bad sound without any music in it. The program, (Audacity, too) wo...