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You may need to tell your Mac what software should open the "WAV (Microsoft) signed 16bit PCM" file-type ... https://www.imore.com/how-set-mac-app-d ... ening-file

aballiett wrote: Any idea of what the trick settings are ?

There is a tool within that noise-gate plug-in to analyse the noise to establish the threshold to set ...

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/time_shifting.html

A real-time equalizer plugin may be of use for you to experiment with. You can get one here ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=282267#p282267 Which settings exactly do I mess around with? Sorry, I'm a bit new to this. Move a slider and listen to hear it's effect, (no need to press &q...

... I use it in a laptop and record from the integrated microphone. Days ago it worked perfectly and suddenly it stopped working as before. I have not touched the settings ... [Operating System: Windows 10] Maybe unbeknownst to you, an automatic Windows audio-driver update occurred ?. If the new Wi...

There's a free distortion plug-in for Audacity here ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=237796#p237796 Once distortion is applied it adds high-frequency content : the sound is brighter ... ''Opening chord'', before-after-after (distortion).flac and I do not own ... noise gates... You c...

I've got to wonder which tool I can use to knock out this low volume stuff that appears between the high vol speaking on my voice track. A noise-gate plugin could be what you're looking for : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_gate it can squelch any signal below a user-defined-threshold down to t...

... can you make some suggestions on the limiter settings to get me started in the right direction? You specify peak level "-3.4dB" , so that's the limit to use ... (soft) Limiter in Audacity.gif The RMS value will go down a little after using the limiter, so after limiting check the RMS ...

I don't speak ACX , bit I'd use rms-normalize* plug-in to to bring the RMS to -"20.#"dB,
then Audacity's (soft) Limiter (No make-up-gain) to ensure all peaks are below -3.4dB

[* The "rms-normalize.ny" plug-in requires Audacity 2.1.3 or later].

unkown artist wrote:I just reloaded audacity (V. 2.3.1) ... It is only giving me the choice of mono for recording.

Check Audacity Preferences : Devices is set for recording in Stereo ...