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the sound track is condensed I assume sideways. Audacity will always try to display the whole show whether it's convenient for you to work on it or not. You can use the Zoom tools to make a small section of the show larger left to right. There's a lot of different zoom tools, but I only use three. ...

That's automatic noise cancellation on the phone or whatever they were using for their voice. The spaces between groups of words doesn't sink to normal background sound typical of an open microphone. It goes to dead zero. That "talking into a jar or wine glass" quality is another effect of...

Audacity 2.3.3 has an MP3 Force Mix Down To Mono option.


Koz

The .AUP is a text file that tells Audacity how to put your show together from the contents of the _DATA folder. It's not a sound file. If your microphone setup is still around, you might burn a fresh ten second test and post that. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html It i...

and it clips. That's the phrase that pays. You are almost certainly recording your new work and re-recording the old work or backing track on top of it. Make sure the Audacity recording and playback devices are real things and not "software devices" designed to make it possible for you to...

Before you start any surgery, do you have backup copies of your raw readings and edit masters? That's highly recommended given how far into the process you are. Either save Audacity Lossless Projects , or Export WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit sound files. Copy them to separate storage such as external drive...

You can use RMS Normalize . It has to be installed. https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=325078#p325078 But. Are you planning on submitting to ACX/Audible? Did you post a test to see if everything was OK before you read the whole book? Or is that message from ACX? Audacity has an Audiobook...

What are your speakers? You can also get problems if your speakers have a BlueTooth connection.

Koz

When you start using effects that have preview, Audacity has to know how to use both your speakers and microphones. From your picture, neither the record device nor the speaker device is a real thing. They're software things trying to be hardware. Is this the setup you use to record sound from the i...

That is actually what ZOOM ... is giving me. Oh, that's super good to know. There was a forum posting recommending Zoom for people who needed to record their conference and pieces of conferences for post-production later. That's a lot less useful if Zoom is going to do that to voices. Is this your ...