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On my last song, "Any Way You Want It", https://www.reverbnation.com/blackdog2016 I drove the peaks about 12 dB into the red and then manually amped each peak and wave down to zero (labor intensive but what tool can do that? Seriously if there's a tool I'd like to know - something that si...

Just noticed Audacity's screenshot tools aren't working with my 2-1-2 on Vista combination, e.g.
Not a problem for me : I have other screengrab tools , just thought I'd mention it for completeness.

Chris_A wrote: V212 spectrogram view.GIF

Your entire screengrab is covered in a weird multi-coloured speckle effect ...

felipezkm wrote:... In this case, I'm amplification and equalization. And I have to describe whether this form of treatment can be applied to any type of audio in any application order.

amplification and equalization are commutative , but that's not true of all audio processing effects.

Attachments buzz-test1.wav (1.86 MiB) Not downloaded yet There is a faint constant 50Hz buzz on that ... waveform & spectrogram of ''buzz-test1'' before-after.png 50Hz buzz is from mains electricity , it can be intermittent : depending on the location of the microphone-wire & the position o...

there's a ~5kHz tone on the left channel and a ~15kHz [harmonic] on the right ... Correct, but they're very low level you could go a long time before you even notice them. Neither of those is the loud buzzing noise in the complaint. If I crank up the volume I can hear the ~5kHz noise : it's similar...

It's a mono microphone , but the noise not the same on each channel : there's a ~5kHz tone on the left channel and a ~15kHz [ harmonic ] on the right ... Audacity spectrogram of ''mic buzz''.png Disable all other recording devices , other than the mic, just-in-case an unused recording device is resp...

cyrano wrote:The closest is a multiband compressor...

A free one [which works with Audacity on Windows] is available here ... http://www.gvst.co.uk/gmulti.htm

...But is it possible to do the opposite? To leave only the high pitched sound? Ultra Narrow filter will isolate a tone , but if you applied such a filter to plain white-noise , (without any tone in it) , the result will be a constant tone. So the result of Ultra Narrow is not good evidence tone ex...

... the Nyquist Noise Gate plugin and it does not work at all ... A Noise-Gate only attenuates the audio when it drops below a user-defined threshold, ( so it's like squelching ). When the volume is above-threshold it does nothing to the audio. Typical use of noise gate is to completely-silence a s...