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steve wrote:Click "OK" in that dialog, and run the effect.
Now open the effect again - do you still get that message?

Clicking "OK" doesn't make any difference : the default setting is not applied ...

... it is easy to get back to the defaults if you need to. Click the "Manage" button, expand "Factory Presets" then click "Defaults". Since 2-1-3 I get an error message when clicking the default on Paul-L's DeClicker : it attempts to load the settings from a compressor...

planetlizz wrote:If anyone knows the default numbers top to bottom

caseyparnell wrote:ATTACHMENTS Z0000110.MP3

Audacity can make that less choppy, if you truncate the silence ...
But any "hidden messages" revealed by combining the chopped-up audio are auditory pareidolia, (not ghosties).

caseyparnell wrote:... I did Noise Removal 3 Times.

Noise-reduction will generate processing-artifacts, some of which can sound like speech.

Telephone code working for me : Iron browser, Audacity 2.1.3, on Windows Vista ...

ATTACHMENTS drum_kick_tst.wav (1.88 MiB) This pattern is consistent ... Use biiggest peak as trigger, then time-shift -20ms (if you must).png So you could set the threshold to use the largest peak as the trigger, then time-shift the track backwards by 20ms. [ I don't think you'll actually notice a ...

.... A JPG of a single offending drum hit will explain it far better than words - it will show the initial transient used to open the gate (and provide the initial sample trigger) followed by another trasient a few milliseconds later (sometimes just as high in amplitude, if not higher) that's causi...

jeffjones wrote:I need the D-esser plug-in so I went to this site - http://www.digitalspitfish.com - and downloaded the correct plug-in but it's not showing up in Audacity?

The URL should be ... http://www.digitalfishphones.com
Those plugins >10 years old : they may not work on modern Macs.

Steve's Nyquist noise-gate has one control which sets both attack & decay times.
Other gates have separate attack & decay times. Having a longer decay-time should ignore the second hit.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_gate