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I don't remember. Are you using Audacity 3.0.0 or 2.4.2? If it's 2.4.2 you can stay there for a while and get to a break point. Never update your system in the middle of a book.

If you're in 3.0.0, there's a New (and Improved) Audacity available. 3.0.2.

https://www.audacityteam.org/

Koz

And just to see if you like it. You can bump Desibilator Threshold up to -20 (dB). That takes a few more of the edges out of the speech. DeSibilator isn't that old. It was posted Sept 2020 as an update to the earlier DeEsser. It's still settling in. You may have seen reference to DeEsser rolling aro...

That's not a Macro. That's just a pile of commands/keystrokes. The top three is/are an existing macro given we're in 3.0.0 or later, but I can't depend on that. Odd man out is Noise Reduction because that doesn't remember its environment/settings. So the straightforward list of blind keystrokes sudd...

I updated Profile Comments in the Alpha Manual. Was that 3.0.2? 3.0.0? 3.0.3?

Koz

Does it warn you if you try to apply Reduction with no profile? If not, doesn't that mean the tool defaults to broken?

Koz

I remember this. This is the age-old "Send Me Your Noise Reduction Profile."

Oh. You can't.

Shucks.

Koz

Word is in. Even though each tool setting is sticky and hangs around forever unless you change it, Noise Reduction Profile is "fugitive" and vanishes the instant you close Audacity. It forgets what your noise is. Next time you open Audacity you have to Select some Room Tone > Effect > Nois...

Somebody said Tools > Nyquist Plugin Installer "knows" how to get rid of the .txt that some computers insist on appending to nyquist download filenames.

Is this a fact and how far back in Audacity history does that go?

Koz

....you would need to retain a WAV file containing the noise (only). The first steps in the macro...

Or convince a developer to make Profiles as sticky as the Noise Reduction settings.

Koz

I'm trying some of the tuning tools as we do this. For a slightly less crisp sound change the top number in DeSibilator (Threshold) from -12 to -15. I never asked if you have the DeSibilator plugin. desibilator.ny Your Mac may try to add .txt to the end of the file. Right-Click > Get Info and peel ....