Audacity Forum

My subjective experience tells me that selecting multiple tracks for an effect (compression for example) does not give the same result as doing each one individually. Am I correct in this assessment? I'd love to be wrong. If you don't have the streams in isolation, to process individually, Steve's ...

... Performing the same operations repeatedly takes a lot of time; mostly while waiting for the operations to complete so I can go on to the next effect. Compression, noise reduction (using the first second of silence we record) and noise gate are very rote activities very suited to scripting. Auda...

... I have an old vinyl that I know very well. First song has a striking horn that is in the right channel (speaker) and loud clear cut cowbell in left channel. Yet, when I load up Audacity, click pause, click record, lower the needle and then record, (I have it set so that I can hear what I'm reco...

... I'm inclined to have a clicky mouth. There is a free DeClicker plugin for Audacity here , it will get of most of the clicks on the default settings . ... I'm trying to explore my microphone technique, in particular my distance from the microphone... I think you're a bit too close: when you say ...

...What else do I need to change? ... Go to Windows Recording devices, (properties), and disable any " enhancements " you find. http://forum.audacityteam.org/download/file.php?id=17960 And disable all the Windows recording devices you are not using, (e.g. "Stereo Mix", "Iin...

... So when I play back the recording in Audacity it goes very fast and my voice sounds very high pitched ... The Audacity recording of the tape should be exactly as the tape sounds on playback. There seems to be problems with Audacity running on Windows10 which causes recordings to have a pitch-sh...

When I try to adjust audio using he equalizer you get a 5 sec. preview. How can I get the music to play for as long as I want to work on it. 5 sec. does not cut it. There are equalizer plugins which work in Audacity which work in real-time, e.g. ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/download/file.php?i...

To continue recording on the same track , press "Shift"+"R" keys , ( see ... append recording ).

... Then I use the normalizer and set it to 3.4, works great ... after applying the above process I find clicks ... Normalizing can amplify the waveform, amplifying will also increase the volume of the noise floor , so noises, like clicks, not heard before normalization become audible afterwards. A...

smernald wrote:is there a way I can take a sound and multiply the waveform by another sounds waveform using the mult command?

That will amplitude modulate one channel with the other, the result probably won't be pleasant/musical ...