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With the very short (.1 seconds of room tone) clips that they want, I'm finding I'm passing noise easily (-84 to -87 dB) when there is 1 or 2 seconds of room tone. When I run the check again though, I'm failing (-24dB)...??? It's driving me crazy. Sometimes the Audacity ACX tool gives spurious resu...

zoumerela wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 24, 2019 11:45 am

... I need a longer pause between each phrase and I don't like waiting on the microphone to actually record the pause,
I want to insert the little pause later on audacity ...

"Extend Silence" plugin ?, see ... viewtopic.php?p=247774#p247774

kozikowski wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 24, 2019 11:18 am

... make a distinctive noise to mark the edit points ...

e.g. dog clicker ... https://youtu.be/pOd5KmvAn0Y?t=58

... I installed the de-esser you posted earlier, but my settings screen looks different from yours ... I suggested Steve's De-esser plugin , Koz was showing Paul-L's DeEsser plugin for Audacity . Paul-L's is capable of surgical-precision, but can be slow to process audio, whereas Steve's can be muc...

Here is the old and the new ... Attachments OldMic.wav (692.04 KiB) NewMic.wav (802.04 KiB) The new mic is much better: a night & day difference ... Old Vs New.png You've also successfully managed to silence the room reverb. The new mic will pass ACX without any processing to reduce the noise-f...

barry_g wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 23, 2019 1:30 pm

Changing the size of the cursor in Windows has no effect on the cursor size displayed in Audacity's waveform window.

Mouse pointer can be made bigger in some areas of an Audacity window ...

barry_g wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 23, 2019 12:38 am

... cursor was bigger in Win7 ...

You can change the size of the cursor in Windows,
see ... https://youtu.be/wripMS7w0d4?t=18

You can change the colour scheme (theme) in Audacity preferences.

There is also an interface preference to "blend system & Audacity theme",
toggling that option may make some things more/less obvious, without changing the theme.

A very similar logo exists in the same marketplace ...


http://www.curioza.com/

I recently discovered a cheap (~$25) automatic-equalizer plugin which works in Audacity (on Windows). It analyses the sound spectrum (in real-time) and automatically applies equalization to correct it ... https://youtu.be/O050Q7vAoOY?t=648 This automatic process is independent of any bias introduced...