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Try setting the USB device as the default recording device ...



and disabling all other recording devices.

MichloIW wrote:... any ideas on what is causing this in the first place then?

The performer & mic, rather than processing, IMO.
Paul-L's DeClicker plugin can remove a lot of clicks & pops.

... I have made some audio cassette-to-CD music recordings with Audacity. I found lots of "clicking" sounds interspersed throughout the recordings ... Please tell me how these clicks are produced and how I can be rid of them... If it's from tape rather than vinyl then I suspect your click...

KacyJ01 wrote: I just cut out the breath sounds on recording using the edit tool is there a better way to do this?

There are de-breath plugins which reduce/remove all breath sounds in one pass. They are noise gates.

KacyJ01 wrote: Should I use Noise Reduction effect ...

Definitely not for de-breath.

At the end of almost every sentence, I have a little extra sound. It doesn't seem to be part of the word because I can cut it right before that sound without the word being damaged so I can only imagine it is left over from the noise reduction ... Up till now I've always manually gone through and p...

rj7500 wrote:Check out Buanzo's reply.

Steve ≠ Buanzo . ( Buanzo = Arturo Busleiman ).

rj7500 wrote:... files to be exported in linear mono 16b PCM 8hz.

That excludes µ-law & A-law, which employ a compander ...


I think WAV PCM format is "linear", (i.e. LPCM).

edwinn wrote:Please comment on the pros and cons of these methods.

LevelSpeech2.NY plugin has the best of both worlds : it's quicker than Audacity's native compressor,
but unlike Audacity's native limiter, it can have different attack & release times.

I want to be able to play the cd and have different tracks so I can review different sections without having to play the whole thing from the beginning. see ... https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/burning_music_files_to_a_cd.html#cuesheets Audacity does not write (aka "burn") audio onto C...

Orleon wrote:I open another blank set and paste the recording to mix, but instead of appearing under the 1st one, it pushes the 1st one ahead. What is wrong?

Try adding a new track, and paste into that.