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Voice Test.wav (861.37 KiB) Echo/reverb is the one problem it doesn't have. The main problems are hiss & USB "mosquito" whine . Both can be removed, but doing that will generate audible artefacts: the audio will sound processed ... ''Voice Test (861.37 KiB)'' , before-after.flac If yo...

I have a bunch of audiobooks that I think were copied from tape to digital and the quality of the files vary significantly. Is there a way to edit them so they all sound the same? Steve made an experimental Audacity plugin which can match equalization, see ... https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtop...

... If the space between clicks is greater than this, perhaps this plugin could just leave those alone ... Paul-L's (free) DeClicker plugin for Audacity has that: you can specify "Maximum time between clicks". Now the bad news: Paul-L's DeClicker plugin can be slow compared with store-bou...

I was actually going to do a different post about getting a greater output from the Scarlet 2i2 because I thought that was a different issue. In brief, I do get amber at the peaks. However clipping starts at .6 which I don't understand ... Limiting to ~0.5 (-6dB) can be due to recording in mono fro...

If by echo you mean rever(beration) from the room, there are de-reverb plugins, but they can only cope with a hint of reverb, e.g. ... https://youtu.be/Zs-5vshUgJ4?t=691 The real practical solution for reverb is to treat the room to stop the sound of your voice bouncing off the walls & getting b...

Argg! Tried that (with both codes) & just got a message- "Nyquist returned nil audio" I think that translates as: you didn't select the audio you wish the code to be applied to ... https://manual.audacityteam.org/m/images/b/b6/select_button_in_tcp.png https://manual.audacityteam.org/m...

I got lost after following the link & clicking on the download. Copy & paste the code into Nyquist prompt ... X-fighter-ish code in Audcaity's Nyquist Prompt.png Then apply Nyquist prompt like any other Audacity effect. Then you have to apply a phone/walkie-talkie/ radio effect, (i.e. 200Hz...

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Tue Nov 19, 2019 12:54 am

RiverHiss.wav (261.04 KiB)

It's spectrum & low volume (<-60dB) lead me to suspect that hiss is the inherent noise of the electronics,rather than a river.
Try an experiment: if you record with the mic unplugged, any hiss captured cannot be a river.

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Mon Nov 18, 2019 2:50 am

I'm looking to reproduce that warbly, distorted radio sound you hear when the X-Wing fighter pilots speak on their radios.

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... When I try to add a second track it starts at the end of the first guitar track ... To start recording on a new track, (rather than appending), you now need to tick a box in Audacity preferences ... https://manual.audacityteam.org/m/images/1/17/preferences_recording.png https ://manual.audacity...