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If you are using Audacity on Windows a free de-esser plugin is "SpitFish" ... And if you're not..... Koz Paul-L's De-esser is a Nyquist-plugin so I think it should work in Audacity running on Non-Windows Operating Systems. [ But Paul-L's De-esser is more complicated to operate than SpitFi...

Please provide any feedback, all news is a learning tool for the betterment of the end product - mine that is :). IMO it lacks treble, i.e. slightly muffled. In order to boost-treble without making sibilance too strong, you need to de-ess * ... 'ah guess we're goin to Mexico' before-after, EQ &...

... is it possible in Audacity to manipulate a voice so it has the sound of a police loudspeaker in a car. ... I'm hoping for an effect exactly like this ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H28fHsizhzo That's a Hollywood version. An actual megaphone would be less Hi-Fi ... Dubya, before-after megap...

Trebor, So for the window size, the higher i go, the more accurate it will be? with a sample rate of 44100Hz IMO the optimum window size is 2048 or 4096. Higher settings take a longer time for the computer to render, with little gain for the extra work. The sound level (dB) seems to change too. Can...

... aren't the "K" and "P" syllables kind of exaggerated in a bit somehow?. Attachments cw00a_cw00hello_000d3c58_1.wav IMO yes, the attack on the plosives such as "K" "P" "T" is too pronounced : too clicky, a bit Khoisan . That can be reduced by usi...

... I am doing a project related to sound and movement. Basically, the sound source is constantly moving back and forth. By theory, this would changes the frequency and I would like to observe these changes ... Is there anyway that could help me analyze the frequency changes more accurately? Dopple...

Noise Removal does a good job of removing it ... Putting this notch-filter code in Nyquist Prompt will do a better job at removing the whine than noise-removal ... (setf s (notch2 s 567 15)) ; apply 567 Hz notch (let* ((q 15) ; set the base Q for the filter (freq 1000) ; set base frequency ;set the...

steve wrote:Press Ctrl+A (select All)
Press the Home button (moves the cursor to the start of the project).
"Generate menu > Silence" and generate 1 second of silence.
Then export the tracks.

For projects with many tracks that's a much faster method than the one I suggested.

davidhenson444 wrote:...I can believe it could be a Windows problem but am unsure what to try next.

Try disabling all "Windows recording devices" except the one you want to use, i.e. just enable the microphone used for the vocal.

... Silence has to be generated up until each track begins? You're padding with silence to maintain the alignment ?. You can do that using "Mix and render" with a silent track before exporting as WAV ... Pad with silence using 'mix & render'#2.gif NB: padding with silence will signifi...