Audacity Forum

Once you select the section of audio ... https://forum.audacityteam.org/download/file.php?id=20539&sid=33c9341eb76b27728eae097c3adf066e You can copy & paste the section like a word-processor, ("Ctrl"+"C", "Ctrl"+"V"). ... I'm listening to police radio ...

+1 on the dedicated-recorder idea. They're designed for professional-quality sound-recording. Can run on batteries, so no mains-hum. No USB electrical-noise. No fan noise. You can then transfer the recording to the computer for editing in Audacity, (e.g. de-essing). A closet full of clothes can be a...

ATTACHMENTS Audacity Forum Sample JH 003.wav You've fixed the sibilance, and the mains hum isn't too bad. But there is still the sizzle from 6Hz-10kHz which is noise generated by the electronics. The headset-microphone is adequate for the purpose it was designed : live Voice Over Internet communica...

... the issue is that the segments are not in order by time. Actually, in my Documents Library I'm able to sort them in ascending order by time. But the problem is, when I'm actually in the Audacity software, that order of the segments becomes completely scrambled. How can I unscramble that order w...

I'm trying to get voice like Kylo Ren / New Venom / Jigsaw. Something deep and scary ... If you want scary, try lowering the pitch (~20%) then vocoding* with white-noise ... before-after.wav [ * mda talkbox vocoder plugin is better than Audacity's native one if you want the voice to be understood ]

... what is a dB RM and where do i find such a creature on my audacity settings? Maybe you're looking for RMS-volume, which is a sort of average-value for the volume, rather than a loudest peak-value. Audacity has a "Contrast" tool in the "Analyse" menu which can measure that .....

edjohnny wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 16, 2018 1:35 pm

... very difficult to tell if I am on the audio or not. ... Any ideas ?

Different Audacity color-schemes are now available ... https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/themes.html

... Still doesn't pass ACX noise floor. ChuckAlice4raw11162018.wav There's a lot of infrasound in that , which no-one can hear but apparently is measured by the ACX tool. If you remove those inaudible frequencies with this rumble-filter equalization, it passes ACX noise-floor test ... 100Hz rumble ...

Bern500 wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 16, 2018 6:22 pm

... playback meters to go lower than -60 ...

See ... https ://manual.audacityteam.org/man/interface_preferences.html

... my sample clip is attached below. Please rip it to shreds and advise me what to do ... Audacity Forum Sample JH 001.wav (1.68 MiB) The level is too low, too quiet. The waveform should look be bigger, like Koz's picture . If you can increase the gain controls on the hardware/software that will m...