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Audacity doesn't apply effects in real-time, only after you've recorded. Even then some VST plugins don't work properly in Audacity, (e.g. VST i ). A standalone VST-host program should be able to allow you to apply Guitar Rig 5 effects in real-time ... https://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/q-the...

... Any ideas why this has started happening and how I can fix it ... Some versions of Windows have an Automatic Gain Control playback "enhancement" which will make quiet louder & louder quieter. You can switch it off ... https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-ha...

the volume level fluctuates from -45db to 0db making it very difficult to understand. How could it be processed to make it more understandable ? I tried normalize and that reduces all the volume but it doesn't boost the lowest volume. Dynamic-range- compression reduces variations in volume level , ...

... how can I know the points I should enter for a specific waveform? The points are the amplitude the successive of points, e.g. 1 0 1 -1 -1 1 draws an M-shaped waveform ... ''M''.png If you know the formula for the arbitrary-waveform try this other plugin ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtop...

Selecting part of the spectrogram-view makes it go dark , so dark I have to unselect it to see what I'm doing. What about darkening non-selected the parts of the spectrogram-view instead ? , e.g. here's a before-after comparison ... spectral selection, proposed change - darken non-selected spectrum...

With Windows 10 there is an audio setting for "mono audio". Mine was automatically turned "off". I had recorded in mono. When I figured out the setting option was available and elected to "Turn mono audio on" suddenly the audio played in Windows Media Player! Sounds li...

paige_ninguru wrote: How did you do to clean that sound?

Manually, see ... http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/clic ... _view.html
If there is a piece missing the repair will probably still be noticeable.

I open audacity and hit the play button on the cassette player and then the record button on my audacity. The sound waves move as if its recording something, however there is no sound so I dont know. When I stop the cassette and go to the beginning of the audacity recording....I have nothing. If yo...

"Split stereo to mono" isn't available in chains.
To do that in Chains you'd have to call a plugin capable of inverting one track of a stereo pair,
e.g. Steve's "Channel Mixer" ... https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqu ... nnel_Mixer
(Preset #13 or #14)

The technique described above has always worked for me it has always opened up a gap, how wide depending on how far the the right I pull the track away from the split marker, well it now does NOT work at all I get as far the the <-> and it wont 'pull the track sideways' If there is another split to...