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You can zoom-in until you see individual samples (the dots) ...



http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Zooming

To edit the audio on a video* you'll need a video editor. Audacity is just an audio editor.

[* be it screen capture and any other video with sound]

sten wrote: ... Perhaps I want to use dynamic compression instead of limiting?

I believe Steve's-limiter performs dynamic range compression in an ultra-fast response time.
A standard dynamic range compressor will not respond quickly enough to trim off the "long, thin lines" on the guitar sample.

- I have a tendancy to hiss out my "S" sounds which though on its own is simply a peculiarity of speech may well get a bit overpowering in a sequence of videos. Question - is there a way to soften out that hiss using Audacity? I would greatly appreciate any help. There are two free de-ess...

sten wrote:... a way to remove those long, thin lines in it

Steve's limiter will trim off those bits ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 65#p162765

A before-after example of Steve's limiter applied to electric guitar ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/download/file.php?id=4368

How would you achive such an effect with male voice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJlnJSGRuaE&t=52s? Is it a mere EQ of certain frequencies or something more elaborate, I wonder? There is reverberation on that, probably a reverb effect rather than due to the location ... http://forum.audacity...

earlgrey wrote:... I need to talk into Audacity or Cassette Player/recorder and say "End of Disc 1" at time 60min...

Could use Text-to-speech ... https://www.google.com/search?q=text+to+voice+online

I've got one of those ...
but clicking on the "Cancel" I've coloured red gets past it.

Here's a sample unprocessed/processed radio recording from the 1920's. Doyle_about_Holmes1.mp3 Threshold: -54 dB Click-duration: 85 ms Distance: 43 smps The final t of "thought" has been lost in the left channel, (see attached excerpt). The amount of silence which must elapse before the f...