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by Trebor
Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:09 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Poor Audio Quality When Recording
Replies: 17
Views: 421

Re: Poor Audio Quality When Recording

Psychedelic Relic wrote:
Mon Oct 26, 2020 11:26 pm
... Sounding like the midrange levels are increased on an equalizer setting.
The mp3 you uploaded has plenty bass (<200Hz) on it ...

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The frequency plot, (e.g. above), is independent of headphones/speakers/hearing.
by Trebor
Mon Oct 26, 2020 11:35 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: High Pass Filter Stalls and Times Out
Replies: 6
Views: 181

Re: High Pass Filter Stalls and Times Out

In the meantime there are many free plugins with high/low pass that work in Audacity on Windows.
TDR Nova is one of the best I've seen: it has a spectrogram so you can see (as well as hear) what the high/low pass filters are doing.
by Trebor
Mon Oct 26, 2020 2:47 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Boxy Recording
Replies: 4
Views: 199

Re: Boxy Recording

Any other bright ideas folks? ... Increasing your distance from the mic would make the recording more roomy. Yeti mics have multi-pattern, changing the sensitivity pattern from cardioid to one of the other settings would record more from the room. Changing the angle of a laptop screen could reflect...
by Trebor
Mon Oct 26, 2020 2:16 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Boxy Recording
Replies: 4
Views: 199

Re: Boxy Recording

...Fully acoustic tiled recording booth. ... All of a sudden I'm getting notes back about my recordings saying some are boxy. Not all, just some. Needless to say I'm doing nothing different to my settings or studio between these jobs, but when I go back some of them DO sound boxy ... Any ideas why ...
by Trebor
Mon Oct 26, 2020 2:21 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: compressor settings display
Replies: 14
Views: 217

Re: compressor settings display

joe sixpak wrote:
Sun Oct 25, 2020 1:30 pm
I googled but did not see them in what I found ...
IIRC there are two versions of that plugin, the "pro" version shows the numbers ...

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[Plenty presets].
by Trebor
Sun Oct 25, 2020 10:57 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: compressor settings display
Replies: 14
Views: 217

Re: compressor settings display

... I was going to simulate parallel compression by compressing two channels differently then merging them in a variable ratio TBD. But I have no way to tell what numbers I see may work in audacity really are so I could try them on the A&H mixer. A good free compressor plugin which works in Aud...
by Trebor
Sat Oct 24, 2020 11:54 am
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: Hidden message in Audio
Replies: 1
Views: 176

Re: Hidden message in Audio

Auditory pareidolia is a situation created when the brain incorrectly interprets random patterns as being familiar patterns. In the case of EVP it could result in an observer interpreting random noise on an audio recording as being the familiar sound of a human voice. The propensity for an apparent...
by Trebor
Sat Oct 24, 2020 4:47 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: How do I add a click or pop noise to an audio file
Replies: 2
Views: 60

Re: How do I add a click or pop noise to an audio file

I have an audio file of length 8 seconds and would like to modify it and add a few digital click or pop sounds to it. Can I do it with the help of audacity? If yes, how? Any help or pointers would be really helpful. There is an Audacity plugin which can add crackle ... https://forum.audacityteam.or...
by Trebor
Fri Oct 23, 2020 10:41 am
Forum: Adding Features to Audacity
Topic: CRASH with Brusfri vst
Replies: 1
Views: 248

Re: CRASH with Brusfri vst

Audacity crashes when I load the "Brusfri" vst plugin. Audacity Version: 2.4.2 OS: Win 10 ... ... Requires ... compatible 64-bit host ... https://klevgrand.se/products/brusfri Currently Audacity in Windows is 32-bit, so can only run (some*) 32-bit plugins, even if the computer OS is 64-bi...
by Trebor
Fri Oct 23, 2020 10:21 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Recording a podcast - beginners questions
Replies: 3
Views: 154

Re: Recording a podcast - beginners questions

SunDancerGE wrote:
Thu Oct 22, 2020 7:03 am
...I'm trying to get a software setup to record a podcast. The way I would like it to work would be that Audacity 2.4.2 records my USB microphone and incoming audio from Skype or discord. I've looked for some time but fail to make any progress ...
The magic-phrase is "virtual mixer".