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... can't soften my sibilants without diminishing the quality of everything else in the signal. I have to crank it that high. The de-esser's operation is that it only kicks in when sibilance gets above a threshold. If it's affecting everything in the track the threshold is set too low. Equalization...

... "Aha! Surely, they must make something like that!" But I can find nothing. Does anyone have any knowledge of such an item? "S" & "CH" are sibilance , the solution for excessive sibilance is a de-esser . There are free de-esser plugins availble for Audacity , fo...

The sound quality (bit-rate) on the YouTube player is dependent on the playback quality selected : [ see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Playback , "Quality and codecs" ] If you select the HD playback format the sound is better, (higher bit-rate audio), than on the standard 360p[ixel]...

Post two seconds of Room Tone. Your live vocal microphone before or after you sing. Do it in WAV.Koz What? Having a couple of seconds of audio where the mic is on but there is no performance is useful when subsequently processing the track. Such audio is the noise-floor = artifact-noise , (e.g. mai...

... but you're going to get serious noise breathing problems. Up, down, up down... If it was a conversation with one person quiet then yes there would be noticeable "breathing" when the noise-floor was raised when the quiet voice was selectively amplified by dynamic-range- compression . H...

... Is there a better way? There's a quicker way ... Select all the applause you've got then apply Audacity's Delay effect with "reverse bouncing ball" selected ... Audacity's Delay effect with ''reverse bouncing ball'' selected.gif Input a delay time which is in the range a third to a ha...

What I'd like to see is some kind of representation so that it would be easy to detect (see) 50 Hz hum (and its harmonics). Does anyone know of such a thing in Audacity. I'm also uploading a snapshot of Rx3 Screen ... You can see the very pronounced 50, 100, 150, etc bands on the spectrogram. Mains...

Trebor, how did you know what frequencies to take out? And how wide? Do you look at a waveform, do you just know that 150hz and 5800hz are common noises for birds/main? I looked at the spectrogram display, rather than the waveform display, which showed a strong constant signal around 5800Hz ... Aud...

No, not before compression. It's all just in the project file. If the compression has already been applied to the vocal-track in the project then one time-consuming solution is manually undoing the compression on the vocal-track using the envelope tool , but would take a lot longer than it would ta...

Sam Houston wrote:But I should be able to go back to the project file and fix it there, right?

Yes if you have the vocal-only track before you applied compression.