Audacity Forum

happydev89 wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 13, 2020 3:34 pm

example: imagine that a gong is heard in the background of the audio
how i could aisle that sound or detect it to extract it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Erzyb ... AaNuN54ZRt

(or ... https://youtu.be/IHSGrGXp_oo )

Updated Attachments revised.wav (1.24 MiB) There's nothing above 6kHz. Amplifying is not going to help: 0 x ∞ = 0 If you want content above 6kHz you have to create it with an exciter plugin. before-after jukeboxed.flac The stereo-image is fluttering about on the original. A cure is to collapse the ...

... When I set Audacity to record, the sound meter(green bars) bars are moving back and forth so there is sound coming from somewhere ... If the bars are moving at a low level, around say -50db, that's explainable as (unavoidable) inherent noise from the mixer & mic, which is normal. https://forum....

I can record and playback fine, but the wave form/audio track is not moving with it ... Either tick "auto-scroll if head unpinned" in Audacity preferences ... https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tracks_preferences.html or pin the playhead for scrolling ... https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/timeli...

How do I cut a passage from an existing track and then re-use it on a completely track? ... Copy & paste (like a word-processor), or duplicate the selection ... https ://manual.audacityteam.org/man/edit_menu_copy_paste_and_duplicate.html To delete, (after making a copy), see ... https://manual.auda...

waloshin wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 11, 2020 12:33 am

What can I do to make this audio cassette recording sound better? ...

https ://manual.audacityteam.org/man/bass_and_treble.html

... That's not at all what's happening in my case. In my case, it won't record at all ... You were saying you couldn't record a second track . It is possible to set a mixer so the output from the first track mutes (ducks) the subsequent recording. ( As there is no output from the computer when the ...

Similar Tascam problem solved here ... viewtopic.php?p=394718#p394718

SparklySquirrel wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 10, 2020 4:39 am

When we narrate over music, we don’t want to have the background blowing us out.
So, we will use Audacity to lessen the volume! ...

There is an Audacity tool which turns down the music when the narrator speaks called AutoDuck,
see ... https://youtu.be/buyFhtI-7uI?t=70

...All I'm wanting is to do is quiet down an audio file. I just want to "mute" it down to say 15% or 30% its original loudness ... Amplify by - 10 dB will reduce the volume to about a third of what it was. (The more negative the number the quieter the sound becomes). First you have to select the au...