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... I need to prove that two video files have audio with levels (dB) different and show how they differ... Try comparing the spectrogram views of the sounds. [ You will probably have to increase the " window size " of the spectrogram from the default setting of 256 to 1024 to obtain a hig...

Dtfrancis15uk wrote:... I keep getting background noise, like a high pitched whistle when recording - even with nothing attached to the PVC6, just the USB cable between the device and the laptop ...

Possibly mosquito whine which is electrical interference emitted by the computer and/or its power supply [EMI].

I have just recently started making some youtube videos and after I uploaded them, I noticed a very loud distortion / crackling when the audio went too high. If it wasn't clipping before you uploaded it to YouTube , you may not have left enough headroom ... When you upload to YouTube you have to le...

i use sibelius sound / and Vst instrument " Alchemy " " Kontakt " Audacity can use some VST effects , but not VST i . VST instruments (VSTi) (such as synths) and real-time VST effects (that change the audio data while playing or recording) are not yet supported. http://wiki.auda...

I just add 5-second WAV-forma file and also waveform. There are strange sound "click" beetween 1,5-2 sec (red color) exactly like I say. Attachments strange sounds.wav I'm confident those clicks are produced by your mouth, saying the plosives "g" "t" & "d"...

... this sounds not disapears. Increasing the priority of Audacity to "Above normal" is worth a try : if you do that Audacity is less likely to be interrupted by other processes running on the computer. [ it's a long-shot ]. https://www.google.com/search?q=set processor priority "abo...

AudioSpirit wrote:...What I'm looking for is a way of Padding for tags, or reserving some space in the file for future tagging (like adding a cover, for instance).

Maybe you need a tag-editor programme ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_edito ... ag_editors

I have my project of five clips edited into one but discovered i need to record one last clip and add it. Can i record it with an unsaved/unexported project open? With your project open in Audacity, you could open a new instance of Audacity to record the additional clip, then copy & paste that ...

AudioSpirit wrote:I just need to add padding to FLAC Exports ...

Are you padding-with-silence to maintain the alignment of tracks when they are exported separately ? ,
if so see ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 12#p275312

... I had unintentionally let the cable go taut at the microphone connector end. And after I gave it some slack the whine was gone. However the cable wasn't so taut as if someone was tugging on it, just enough that there was no curve from the base of the connector molding to the next point it was w...