Audacity Forum

Something in your system is greatly misbehaving. Watch. I plain/ordinary boosted "Piercing 2" to get it loud enough for the audiobook tools. A whole pile of evil tones and singing pitches turns up when I do that. I picked the center of worst one at 3633Hz and applied Effect > Notch Filter ...

Thank you. Your recording volume is massively too quiet. Screen Shot 2019-10-25 at 20.12.08.png The tips of those blue waves need to come up, occasionally, to about 0.5 or the 50% mark. Forget the noise for a minute. Keep turning the volume(s) up, adjusting the system and adjust your face/microphone...

I forgot I’d need to upload the files here directly. Not exactly. You can certainly do that at any time, but if you do post using a third party, you have to make sure that the third party makes the work freely available and doesn't try to create an account. You also have to make sure the third part...

if the noises are short-duration and/or there is no talking during the noise

There are local microphone handling noises and everything happens at the same time. It would be swell if they were just spikes and we could attack them. But they're not. See what you think when you get home.

Koz

It is totally possible for USB microphones to make their own noise. There is a whining sound I've been calling the Yeti Curse. You'll never guess why. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/USBMicrophoneWhineClip.mp3 Do you get this? It generally happens forever and doesn't come and go. The only solut...

We got two problems right at the top. To download this file, log in or create an account. Thanks. I'll pass. So I can't apply filters or do any serious analysis without the actual file. You can post a 20 second sound clip right on the forum. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip....

I think we can suppress the clicks and pops, but that won't do anything to make it easier to listen to. Most of the tools will take the voice with it when they suppress the loud noises. You get a lecture with little quiet, well-behaved holes in it. We sometimes recommend Effect > Equalizer: Telephon...

I would like to pause the recording and then pick-up where I left off That's a different question. The P (pause) key will do that. P to pause the recording and P again to resume. I wouldn't do that for delay of hours, but if you need a short pause, this is your key. You can change the behavior of t...

What should I do? is it because I updated to Catalina? Yes. Catalina carefully peeled off all older 32-bit apps as they were warning it was going to do. If it's critical that your older software keep running, you could roll back to the earlier Mojave, still, as far as I know, still supported. Also ...

Windows 7 has a "Snipping Tool" (or something similar). Draw a box around the portion of screen you want to capture. Screen Shot 2019-10-25 at 1.48.25.png Scroll down from a forum text screen > Attachments > Add Files. https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=64936 Koz