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This problem is driving me to the point of smashing up my computer. I am trying to record from the Djay app on iPad to my PC via a Pioneer mixer. The problem I have is the recording picks up every noise in the room I.e. My voice / general noises. Try disabling the computer's built-in microphone. No...

... normal users are going to be stunningly lost ... Trebor's patch appears to be a desirable result. The default-setting for the upper-frequency on Paul-L's De-Esser is 8kHz, which is way too low. Most people can hear up to ~14kHz , 15kHz seems like a better value for an upper-limit ... Trebor's s...

Paul's De-Esser is I think quite slow (?) If you keep the number of bands low [ <6 ] then Paul's De-Esser reasonably quick. On my 5 year old computer, using 3 bands, the processing-time to DeEss is ~1/10th of the playback-time. [ SpitFish does it in ~1/20th of the playback-time ]. ... That was why ...

Still. How did you get a 13KHz value from a spectrogram that stops at 8. All the spectrograms on the info page stop at 8. I must have zoomed-out * on the frequency-scale to show the full frequency range, because the maximum frequency on my spectrogram preferences is still on 8000Hz ... Spectrogram ...

... But you didn't do it with the default spectrogram, because that looks like mine. http://forum.audacityteam.org/download/file.php?id=14961 I've chosen the logarithmic frequency scale on spectrogram [ "log(f)"], yours is on linear scale. The inverted colours on your spectrogram indicate...

...how did you determine those values? And what are they? I can't read the graphic. Text is readable on this version ... ''For a popsicle'' before-after DeEss with Paul-L's plugin - (actual size).png The frequency range [ 5KHz -13kHz ] I got from the white-hot "sicle" part of the spectrog...

I'm on Windows , not Mac, but I believe that Paul-L's de-esser plugin , will work cross-platform on Audacity ...

I see..thanks....I like the Mavricks track...that`s pretty close to what I`m looking for... I`m really trying to keep everything as simple as I can... There is a useful free simple VST called Acon Multiply . It can make mono sound like stereo , and other effects , ( it has presets ) ... Acon Multip...

A workaround is to use an online audio-file format-converter. e.g. ... http://audio.online-convert.com/
NB: Doing that means sending a copy of your audio across the internet , so not for sensitive information , ( theoretically people could eavesdrop ).

The Alien Solo VST is in principal same as kazoo VST, ( i.e. pitch tracking ) , but offers different instruments , see ... http://www.cloneensemble.com/audio/aliendemo.mp3 A free demo version of Alien Solo is available ... http://www.cloneensemble.com/al_main.htm However , IIRC, Alien Solo VST does ...