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Your example "test4" has a missing bit : that's a drop-out . ... the context of the room ... Feng shui will not stop further dropouts. ATTACHMENTS second computer test 1.wav. Has a few mouth-clicks, (made by you) , e.g. @ ~1 second , but no dropouts. There's a DeClicker plugin for Audacit...

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/reco ... ually.html, bonne chance.

landphil wrote:... Like able to download it or record it without just playing it outloud ...

Google search "SoundCloud Downloader".

Increasing the CPU priority of Audacity to "Above Normal" is worth a shot : that lowers the odds Audacity will be interrupted by any other program on the computer ... https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sshot-14.png https://www.howtogeek.com/108742/how-to-use-the-new-task-...

Quantize-noise is close, (and doesn't require the overhead of re-sampling to 1MHz) ...

So recordings on a new Windows computer sound like you're "in a can" . #1. Suspect is "enhancements" in Windows recording devices, which need to be turned off, see ... http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.html#_[b]sound_as_if_they_were_made_in_a_tunnel...

Audio electronics are designed to record up to ~20kHz, (most people can only hear up to ~16kHz). You may have seen signal above 20kHz on a spectrogram when sampling at 96kHz, but it will just be inaudible (ultrasonic) digital-artifacts. If the sampling-rate & the bit-depth on the USB device does...

Pressing "Ctrl"+"S" saves as an Audacity project.
"Ctrl"+"Shift"+"E" Exports the audio.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/keyb ... rence.html

WillNuessle wrote:... 'hard limiter' effect in Audacity...

It's in the effects menu of Audacity 2-1-3 ...


Once you apply a limiter without make-up-gain, it's going to reduce the RMS value a little.

For those with the same problem : you've accidentally engaged scrubbing.