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JohnnyX wrote:I want to create an explosion sound effect in Audacity ...

There is a plugin ...
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqui ... ion_sounds

kozikowski wrote:...Truncate Silence does nothing. I would expect it to collapse tiny segments of very low volume to almost zero time

"almost zero time" . How about 0.001s ...

sanchell wrote: ... can you give me a quick explanation on how to clip the tail?

Select the section (of tail) you don't want using the mouse, see ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 11#p316911

After you have deleted the excess, you'll probably want to apply fade-out.

jabowery wrote:... Is the attached sample "reverb" hence requiring a "deverb" plugin? Or is it something else requiring another kind of removal plugin?

#1 It sounds like a single 100ms delay.

#2 It's a gonner : there's no way of fixing that.

... Using Reverb ... With these settings it gets a bit better to listen to. Less choppy. Are there any other effects which might work better ... Some in-fill into the silent bits. How about temporal-blur it using PaulStretch to fill the silent gaps ... 'choppy_audio'' Before-after PaulStretch woth ...

... I currently use the default Noise Reduction db 12, Sensitivity 6.00, and frequency smoothing at 3. I leave at least 3-5 seconds at the beginning of the recording before I start talking to use as a profile, but it seems I'm having to use Noise reduction twice to even remove all of the noise some...

Has anybody abstracted out of the manual, a "light" version? All I want to do is copy my LPs, 45s and 78s to my computer as MP3 files. I don't want to fuss with them at all. I may get excommunicated for heresy for saying this here, but there is another free, (cross-platform), audio-editor...

... when I record audio from YouTube, I get this kind of echo chamber sound ... Sounds like "Windows Enhancements", (a Windows thing, not an Audacity thing). You should turn all "enhancements" off ... http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.html#...sound...

OurJud wrote:If it's the way Twine (the adventure writing program) handles audio looping, then I'm not sure there's a solution.

If you try uploading a totally silent track, and it still pops when looped, then the problem is at their end.

... The software allows you to use mp3 sound clips in your game, and has a 'loop' feature for when you want the sound playing continuously ... However, when the clip comes to an end, then starts the loop again, there's a very noticeable 'pop' of silence between it ending and starting up. When you m...