Audacity Forum

... If I want to add 10 seconds of silence to the beginning of the file which has many tracks, how can I do it? Select all the tracks, (press "Ctrl" +"A"), then move the cursor to the start, (press "J"), then generate silence, which will be added to the start of all th...

before recording, switch off any "enhancements" that the Mac, (not Audacity), is applying: it may sound better without them, see ...
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_ ... n_a_tunnel

... If the recording volume is higher than 50%, is it normal for the voice to be distorted? Just wondering... You may have to move the mic further away, and/or put a shield on it , to stop the distortion during loud sections. (i.e. the distortion can occur in the mic, not just in subsequent process...

ceci3 wrote:I want to start two sounds imported one at 0 sec and the other 0.000219 seconds later

generate silence at the start of one of the tracks, that will delay it.
"0.000219" seconds at a sample-rate of 44100Hz is ~9 samples ...

This is not an Audacity thing. Sounds like the OS is trying to prevent you from overwriting a file which is in use.
Two workarounds are either to save the audio file under a different name in the same folder, or save the audio file with the same name in a different folder.

Eh bien j'ai fait ce que vous m'avez dit de faire mais le problème c'est qu'après l'installation Audacity ne reconnaît pas le fichier, je n'arrive pas à le trouver il n'est pas affiché dans ma liste de plugins nouveaux Audacity accepte uniquement les plugins 32 bits (même si votre système d'exploit...

Can use the up ↑ and down ↓ keys to dial-in start at 0.118 ...
or key-in "1","1","8".

I have an Audacity file, which has 12 tracks. Now I want to remove first 1 min 38 seconds. But I want that that the remaining end part remains exactly the same as before, without any changes. You can silence the unwanted section you select using "Ctrl" +"L", that keeps everythin...

it also brings down the volume near the beginning of a sentence, so it sort of fades in from silence to full speaking volume. Will tweaking the settings in the compressor tool allow to me to fix this ... Sounds like the attack-time on the compressor is too slow. I use 10-20ms attack,(a/k/a rise-tim...

The goal is to upload the result video to youtube ... What is video equivalent of Audacity? On Windows 7 you may already have a video-editor called movie-maker . That will make videos which are acceptable by YouTube, (.wmv format). If windows movie-maker is not available see ... https://en.wikipedi...