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by Trebor
Fri Aug 19, 2016 1:49 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Audio file suddenly sounds like I got a squeaky toy...
Replies: 41
Views: 7136

Re: Audio file suddenly sounds like I got a squeaky toy...

... whats seemed to help more was adding a windsock. It does seem to be happening during big sibilant moments, although not typically "s" sounds, but th's and even j's .... There does have to be a gap between the pop-shield and the mic for it to work, 2-4 inches, (that's another variable ...
by Trebor
Thu Aug 18, 2016 1:36 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Recording volume.
Replies: 1
Views: 117

Re: Recording volume.

Audacity's envelope tool ...

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by Trebor
Wed Aug 17, 2016 6:16 am
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: Speed slider effect
Replies: 5
Views: 2637

Re: Speed slider effect

... a pitch sliding effect that would slide the speed throughout the track from one percentage to another ... I would prefer a simpler effect to just change speed and tempo at the same time There is a Nyquist plugin called "turntable warp" which will gradually slow-down (or speed-up), lik...
by Trebor
Mon Aug 15, 2016 11:29 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Line In Input Missing in Drop Down?
Replies: 2
Views: 3910

Re: Line In Input Missing in Drop Down?

On windows, recording devices, (like line-in option), can be hidden if they are disabled, (which can be the default). If you right-mouse-click in the empty white space in the recording devices tab, you'll see the options to display disabled devices, then you can enable them ... Disabled recording de...
by Trebor
Mon Aug 15, 2016 3:30 pm
Forum: General Audio Programming
Topic: adding audacity audio files to video
Replies: 5
Views: 7880

Re: adding audacity audio files to video

it turns out that inserting music files into video files is much more difficult than i thought,ill keep trying though.there is software out there somewhere!!.mickthefish. :( Apparently there are "online" video* editors : with them you don't install software on your machine. You upload the...
by Trebor
Mon Aug 15, 2016 2:51 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: notch filter good for cleaning out static noise?
Replies: 6
Views: 2100

Re: notch filter good for cleaning out static noise?

... kindly advise as the spectogram example shown involved ... I'd use Audacity's spectral edit tool [ shelves ] to nibble-away at the bursts of noise ... Demo of Audcaity's spectral edit tool (shelves)_ .gif spectral Edit on sleves, -10dB setting.png Once you've selected "spectral edit shelve...
by Trebor
Sun Aug 14, 2016 2:31 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: notch filter good for cleaning out static noise?
Replies: 6
Views: 2100

Re: notch filter good for cleaning out static noise?

static noise ... applying the values in notch filter in an attempt to remove ... may i ask what is the probable frequency range of static noise because after applying values from 60hz to 1200hz the noise remains Notch filters can only remove a tone of constant frequency. Whereas "static" ...
by Trebor
Sun Aug 14, 2016 12:19 am
Forum: macOS
Topic: Locating section to be acted upon
Replies: 1
Views: 172

Re: Locating section to be acted upon

...Say you want the section from 2.5 to 2.6, how do you get there? In other words, I'm looking for a fine-tuning method. Does it exist? Select the region [ from 2.5 to 2.6 ] the press Zoom Selection http://manual.audacityteam.org/m/images/8/88/tool_edit_zoomselection.png zoom-in on selection.gif
by Trebor
Sat Aug 13, 2016 7:53 pm
Forum: Podcasting with Audacity
Topic: Merging separate audio files
Replies: 5
Views: 4353

Re: Merging separate audio files

kozikowski wrote: I'm curious what you were going to use as a sync point. Everybody was going to start their recorder at a different time, so you can't use track-start as sync.
Aligning the matching patterns in the spectrograms of the different tracks can assist synchronization.
by Trebor
Sat Aug 13, 2016 3:14 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Extreme Power Line Hum
Replies: 4
Views: 276

Re: Extreme Power Line Hum

Is there a chance to remove or reduce a very bad power line hum (attached sample)? ATTACHMENTS sample_alex.wav (1.51 MiB) The interfering frequency is too high to be mains hum . Notch filters [in Audacity's Nyquist Prompt ] help a bit ... ''alex'', before-after notch filters shown.wav (setf s (notc...