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Just now thinking about this. I can't just save a "room tone" segment and export it for use later as a Noise Reduction profile because it will have dither added to it.

What's the recommendation?

Koz

“off the shelf” HP Pavilion desktop

I was referring to FREE DuplicateCleaner.

That's what failed, right?

Koz

There is a high point. If you pull this off, you will be the Experienced Professional.

Koz

I won't burden you with why. Go ahead and burden us. We have to construct your performance in our heads to figure out what's wrong and seemingly trivial details can sometimes be valuable. On first pass, I envisioned y'all sitting around a table in the kitchen. In fact you were probably in completel...

The forum works best when we have experience with how current Audacity versions are used on common machines for relatively simple jobs. It works less well on celebrity machines or machines whose configuration is only shared by a handful of other machines. Two problems occur immediately: None of the ...

I think I'm far enough along to do a review. I took delivery of a Zoom H1n sound recorder and shot a voice test. Fair warning I have a dead quiet recording space (a guy before me played drums and soundproofed the tiny third bedroom). Nobody is going to accept my lip smacks and tongue noises anytime ...

might indicate that the FREE DuplicateCleaner is doing more than cleaning duplicates

Right. So you have a celebrity machine.

Koz

If this is the same problem, I have a more devious way. Audacity will save Last Curve Changed . So get yourself a curve in Draw mode. Doesn't matter how you get there. Make one super tiny change anywhere in the curve. That curve will now stick until the sun cools off. Screen Shot 2019-06-02 at 9.28....

I usually record a 10 second background noise profile

You record a background noise file and use that to periodically update a fresh Audacity? That's how I do it.

Koz

Yeah. That's come up before. I want the Noise Profile to stick like the settings on some of the other tools. The problem, I assume, is that the other tools are remembering single numbers like "4" or "7." A Noise Profile is like trying to remember a book. I think it does stick as ...