Audacity Forum

Felipe Zanabria wrote: De-sser.ny (2.28 KiB)

When it reduces frequencies above specified value, (4kHz-12kHz),
it is also increasing the frequencies between ~1kHz & the specified value ...
That increase doesn't seem right to me.

Stretch wrote:I am having all sorts of issues with my setup and can't tell if it's audacity or my new PC ...

If you try another free audio-editor, (e.g. ocenaudio) , and the problems persist , then it's the new PC.

Would it be possible to somehow "fake" the high-end on a low quality recording ... Have it make educated guesses as to what the high-end sounded like Vocal exciters, (a/k/a "Aural Exciter"), can add high missing high-frequencies, but they are only usable on clean, (not crackly),...

Dartus Klartus wrote:... if there was a way to ... finding the dropouts ...

The drop-outs show up clearly in Audacity's spectrogram view, if you change the window size from 1024 (default) to 64 ...

Would I just install this plug in and it will automatically do the work for me? No need to apply it in any way? Audacity plugins (& other effects) are not automatic: not applied in real-time. Once the plugin is installed it appears on the Audacity effects menu . You then have to apply it like a...

pennyroyaltea94 wrote:To me the voice sounds really good with the room reverbs ...

Reverb can improve singing, but not speaking : it makes speech less intelligible.
If you can increase mouth-to-mic distance the wet-mouth-noises will be less audible, (but reverb will be more audible).

So I want to use a rather loud voice apparently I want to stand further away then ? The further you are from the microphone the louder the reverb from the room becomes relative to the direct voice signal, so greater need for sound absorbing materials , (e.g. curtains, or heavy fabric, acoustic foam...

nordic wrote:It's for a podcast. Recording my voice directly into audacity. First I'm setting the gain, then doing noise reduction, then normalize and then compression.

LevelSpeech2.NY is an Audacity-plugin which is a compressor (& limiter) designed for speech.

bobnmad wrote:I need to know how to get rid of the motor noise I hear in the back ground from the cassette player.

If the motor is running at a constant speed there may be conspicuous frequencies you can notch-out ...
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/spe ... ml#example

I have some .mp4 gameplay videos that have random clicks? spikes? throughout them, that I'm trying to remove from the audio ... I've attached a 5 second .wav file with an example at roughly 2 seconds ... That's a drop-out : there's about 10 milliseconds missing ... Drop-out from 2480ms to 2490ms.pn...