Audacity Forum

Trebor, how do I, or, where do I put those plug-ins? What is the process in using them? Steve's plugins are in a format called Nyquist : they are files whose name ends with ".ny", e.g. noisegate.ny Obtain the ".ny" files from the download links I gave in my previous post , ( bot...

... I forgot to upload the file. Here it is. ... The Quest.wav (872.3 KiB) There's quite a bit of mains hum on that , which can be removed with Steve's obviously titled plugin ... Steve's hum-remover plugin , showing setting used on 'the Quest' (after).png Then apply Audacity's native Noise reducti...

Are audio-only files allowed on YouTube ?, the ones I've seen have to have some sort of video, even a static image ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFredbE3goM 8-) If you are trying to share audio files try SoundCloud , it's the audio-equivalent of YouTube. [ Update : apparently you can upload aud...

can i select a portion of audio and stretch it in order to extend the tone? Clue in the title : paulstretch ... http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/paulstretch.html You would need to create a mix of the original and the stretched version ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=99614#p99614

It certainly improves matters ...
but how can it "know" when it is the quiet person talking , ( and to increase the gain accordingly ),
rather than a quiet section within the loud person talking, which should be left alone ?

gasto wrote:I have isolated sound waves surrounded by near silence, I want to attenuate or silence ...

Possibly a noise gate ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_gate

MUSICMAN1 wrote:Next, I have to learn how to record an album as a whole and have each track record as a separate track.

You can label where each track on the album recording begins and Audacity can batch-process them : automatically exporting each labelled track as a separate audio file.

..The image (first line of second image towards the end) shows no DC bias (why suggest that?) if there was DC bias i would expect a silence line about 5% off centre. Applying DC offset can make an asymmetrical waveform more symmetrical about the zero line. Steve's plug-in "tool" for Audac...

petersett wrote: in Audacity i mus DELETE all tracks from the program and leave only those who will be in the multitrack - it is a not comfortable at all.

You can mute any tracks rather than delete them ...

Steve made a plug-in for Audacity to apply a DC offset ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 96#p193996

[ but on the example shown above I don't think it is necessary : it's not wildly asymmetrical ]