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by Trebor
Thu Apr 21, 2016 4:07 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Recording with speakers sounds a little weird
Replies: 4
Views: 264

Re: Recording with speakers sounds a little weird

Direct from Freesound.wav This one is downloaded right from Freesound (229.23 KiB) Test With Audacity.mp3 This one was recorded from media player with Audacity. (44.08 KiB) scorpion67890's original is mono ... http://www.freesound.org/people/scorpion67890/sounds/341734/ whereas your mp3 has had a s...
by Trebor
Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:01 am
Forum: macOS
Topic: Suddenly Crackling Noises
Replies: 5
Views: 527

Re: Suddenly Crackling Noises

... I have recorded and edited about 8 podcasts, no problems. Suddenly, without anything changing, about 3 minutes in, I'm get a ton of crackling. Sounds very much like when speakers going out. The crackles could be tiny missing bits, ( each about 1/100th of a second ), called skipping*, that can b...
by Trebor
Sat Apr 16, 2016 9:07 pm
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: To cut or to shrink, that is the question
Replies: 6
Views: 970

Re: To cut or to shrink, that is the question

-----"the loud bassy part of the spectrum'---- I'm not sure what that would look like on the spectrum view.Can anyone suggest the settings I need for this? ... "Loud" = white-hot bits on spectrogram are the loudest. "bassy" = everything below 200Hz ... removing bassy thud o...
by Trebor
Fri Apr 15, 2016 8:53 pm
Forum: Making Music with Audacity
Topic: Blending Two Sounds Into One
Replies: 4
Views: 813

Re: Blending Two Sounds Into One

... somehow apply the volume levels of the stream track onto the guitar track in a way similar to enveloping. Also see "chimerae" ... http://www.freesound.org/people/bgygi/sounds/41727/ Made using envelope-follower . envelope-follower will sound more natural, (less electronic) than vocode...
by Trebor
Thu Apr 14, 2016 11:40 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Change pitch without "chipmunk effect"
Replies: 5
Views: 6018

Re: Change pitch without "chipmunk effect"

Gale Andrews wrote: Or you can try Formant Filter to shift the formants ...
Audacity 2-1-2 in Windows Vista is not accepting that VST : plenty of "can't load module" error messages.
by Trebor
Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:33 am
Forum: Making Music with Audacity
Topic: Is there something better than a Compressor[?] to ...
Replies: 11
Views: 1494

Re: Is there something better than a Compressor[?] to ...

confused-- does this mean: dont use it on stereo tracks? only mono? or left/right one at a time? When you apply Paul-L's declicker to a stereo track it De-Clicks left & right as individual tracks. That can cause an unwanted stereo-flutter effect: where the sound moves in the stereo-field where ...
by Trebor
Wed Apr 13, 2016 7:16 pm
Forum: Making Music with Audacity
Topic: Is there something better than a Compressor[?] to ...
Replies: 11
Views: 1494

Re: Is there something better than a Compressor[?] to ...

... Is there an Audacity page with these various plugins? Paul's De-clicker is not here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/VST_Plug-ins Paul-L De-clicker is an [experimental?] Nyquist-type plugin , not a VST-type. Nyquist plugins are here ... http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Download_Nyquist_Plug-...
by Trebor
Wed Apr 13, 2016 4:35 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: How to copy a audio recording to the end without a skip
Replies: 4
Views: 243

Re: How to copy a audio recording to the end without a skip

Using repair on the join may be sufficient ...
audacity repair demo.gif
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If not you can cross-fade the two tracks ...

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by Trebor
Tue Apr 12, 2016 3:20 am
Forum: Making Music with Audacity
Topic: Is there something better than a Compressor[?] to ...
Replies: 11
Views: 1494

Re: Is there something better than a Compressor[?] to ...

Black Dog Bluez wrote:... only bringing down the obvious 'off peaks'... Not wanting to raise the volume of the quieter parts ...
Then switch off "make up gain" on the compressor / limiter.
by Trebor
Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:14 pm
Forum: Making Music with Audacity
Topic: any free sites
Replies: 4
Views: 750

Re: any free sites

amature sites.mp3 (218.04 KiB) I'd be tempted to apply dynamic range compression to each track , (vocal , guitar , harmonica) , so the result could be louder. Applying compression to the final mix gives an idea , but isn't as good as applying compression to each track individually. 'amature sites' ...