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Using the settings for noise reduction recommended on the previous page The plugin on the previous page is "noise gate" , ("noise reduction" is something different). ... I find that sometimes the last little bit of a word gets chopped off. What is causing that, and what adjustme...

There was a version of this noise gate which allowed different values for attack and decay, which would produce better results, but I can't find it at the moment. Rather than having attack and decay both ~200ms , the attack should be shorter around 100ms or less.

Vic Doucette wrote:.wav or .mp3?

For this purpose either will do. With the 1Mb limit for attachments here, you will be limited to about 10 seconds, mono, 16-bit, 44100Hz WAV.

Vic Doucette wrote:Next question: Could someone suggest introductory settings for the plug-in?

if you can let us hear an example we can suggest settings.
You can attach audio files to posts here if they are less than 1Mb,
or post a link to the audio hosted elsewhere.

... I then go back and try to remove or reduce them individually -- about -10db application works wonders -- but this is tedious and time consuming. Is there a plug in or some other technique where this can be done en masse? They can be automatically attenuated using a "noise gate" plugin...

@Trebor Audacity does not ship with a de-esser so which plug-in do you recommend? Lisp or Spitfish ? Gale I used Spitfish, on the above, ( de-essing wasn't absolutely necessary , just my personal taste ). May be problems with using Spitfish on a modern Mac ... IMPORTANT! The mac version will most c...

IMO needs more treble, e.g. ... AudioTest ('sideframe'), before-after.wav Here's the data for the equalization curve I used (xml file) for "import" into Audacity's equalizer ... side-frame.xml 'side-frame' equalization curve.png NB: That equalization curve is specific for that recording : ...

Try recording using windows native sound recorder to see if the problem is specific to Audacity ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Sound_Recorder If the problem is Audacity-specific try giving Audacity higher priority so it is not interrupted by any other processes running on the computer , (e...

steve wrote:... Am I right in thinking that the SendSpace file is the person's name? ...

"rrrra.wav" sendspace file is more lady gaga saying "roma" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lady_ ... omance.ogg [@26sec]

1. Is it possible to quantize lower than 8, or to any rates other than 8, 16, 24, or 32 in Audacity? see Nyquist Prompt ... http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/nyquist_prompt.html quantize.png 2. Even if I succeeded, is there any reason Audacity or any other music player wouldn't be able to suppor...