Audacity Forum

lee1984 wrote:... it's unusable because it sounds like the other persons audio is being recorded on my mic not directly into audacity which makes them about half my volume ...

May be salvageable using this LevelSpeech plugin for Audacity ...

... I believe the person I was recording simply built up a lot of saliva in their mouth and it caused those sounds ... In my analogy, saliva is the glue on the low-budget post-it-note. I just tried and it was easier to notice them as they did spike a little bit above on spectrogram, and I could jus...

... I can't even see it properly in the spectogram most of the time ... Those noises have highest energy at about 10kHz , you may have to zoom-out on the spectrogram to see above 8kHz, also achievable by increasing the maximum frequency of the spectrogram display in Audacity preferences ... Audacit...

Please excuse my ignorance, but I don't understand how that would accomplish what I have to do. I'm now down to 8 tracks ... The animation above showed a method of combining two tracks into one. If you keep repeating that process you can add more tracks, one at a time, until you accumulate 8, or 11...

... Would changing the project rate or any of those other settings help reduce the file size but maintain sound quality? If you're using MP3, selecting Variable bit rate, VBR , rather than Constant bit rate, CBR, can reduce the file-size whilst maintaining quality, but not by much, ~5% , depending ...

... 48000hz 32-bit float and exported it as a wav as I've been doing for years. Then I opened Avidemux, went to audio settings, choose external.wav, found the file, saved and this nasty message poped up: "Failed to open the file. Not a WAV file?" Some software can't play/recognise 32-bit ...

...Then as soon as I press the record button in Audacity a loud whining sound starts. It won't stop by stopping the recording; or by pulling out the line-in cable from the laptop; or even after shutting off the tape player. I unchecked the "Listen to this device" checkbox, which stopped t...

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".aup" files don't contain any audio. You should attach about 10 seconds in ".wav" format.

... I would like to combine 11 excerpts from an orchestra piece into one track ... ... How can I combine the 11 excerpts into one audio file? Audacity is a multi-track audio editor : you could open all 11 tracks in Audacity at-once by dragging & dropping them into Audacity. However, as you've w...

... how to post-process to bring the RMS up a little and the peak level down a little (is this compression?). Yes that's dynamic range compression . A good free multi-band compressor plugin which works in Audacity is Gmulti ... 'GMulit' Multi-band compressor with '4solobo' settings.png 4solobo.xml ...