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"White band" indicates multi-tool mode which you've activated by clicking on the star button ...

Click on the "I" button to return to the default.

In the Preference menu, the manual asks to select RECORDING DEVICE >USB AUDIO DEVICE When I do that on my computer, the only choice under RECORDING DEVICE > MS Sound Mapper - Input OR Microphone (REALTEK AUDIO) Audacity can only "see" devices if they are enabled in Windows. Go to Windows ...

Turning off the phone / light / (WiFi router ?) should reveal whether they are responsible.

commentonthat wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 06, 2019 2:56 am

"Whine" is the sound happening when I'm not talking (albeit moving).
whine.wav

"whine.wav" sounds like EMI,
possibly from a cellphone, or fluorescent lighting, or from the computer itself.
Your position is affecting the reception of this interference.

So. I recorded a video with Fraps and every time I muted the mic to cough or something it created a loud POP! on both the mute and unmute events. Trying to remove those pops and having not much luck... If all the pops are louder than your voice ever gets, then the PopMute plugin can detect & si...

... I think it could really be great: Say if you have a saxophone playing and you merge the track, apply the compression and limiter. You want the bass to be louder, you would have to undo and then repeat the process until you like it... Mix and render to new track , solo it, then apply compressor,...

This audacity plug-in has a MS decoder option ...
https ://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyquist_Effect_Plug-ins#Channel_Mixer
( but I've not used it myself: I use MSED plug-in in Audacity on Windows, but it is available for MACs ).

There's free plugins which do that e.g. Multiply.

De-reverb plugins can only dry-up slight reverb, and they add digital artefacts ...

deepakg wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 03, 2019 3:12 pm

..., but am missing the 'Frequency Sweep' function under the 'Generate' tab ...

Despite the name, "Chirp" in the Generate tab can create frequency-sweeps which are minutes or hours long.