Audacity Forum

it's possible to display the whole 8 hours on one screen, then zoom in on peaks in the waveform which may be the somniloquy [ooh!] you are looking for, (or a cat's chorus). click on the magnifying glass icon on the far right to display the whole [X hour] recording on the screen ... http://forum.auda...

Have you tried increasing the input level slider (the one with the microphone icon)...

Steve made a noise gate plugin ... http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqui ... Noise_Gate

If the problem persists with other tape players, (i.e. the problem is definitely in the cassette), you could transplant the tape to a new cassette shell ... http://www.tapeheads.net/showthread.php?t=2560 Depending on how valuable this recording is you may wish to employ a specialist to perform the t...

steve wrote:Nice pictures Trebor

They are from wikipedia ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Clip ... miting.svg

Sounds like you are trying to reverse dynamic range compression. An "expander" is the opposite of (dynamic range) compressor : it expands the dynamic range : exaggerates the differences in volume. A popular plugin for Audacity is "Chris's Compressor" : if you put a negative value...

http://www.discomusic.com/forums/showthread.php/2654-Why-does-the-last-track-of-a-lp-sound-distorded I suppose you could use Audacity's "analyze" feature to look at the spectrum of the first track on the album then use audacity's equalizer on the last track so it's spectrum (approximately)...

Well if we're going to allow other programs ;) . The specification was "Audacity", so using a (free) VST plugin within Audacity may be acceptable, ( should be extra marks for using initiative :) ). ... here's the same as previously after running it through Gnome Wave Cleaner (Linux only) ...

The "spectral {noise} gate" VST plugin below is free, usually* works in Audacity (* occasionally crashes), Windows only.

http://www.savioursofsoul.de/Christian/ ... t-plugins/

it seemed to reduce crackle, (I only tried it briefly).

Can you hear in resenje(solution).wav that the sound is little bit smoother and softer. Is this equalization effect? The "solution" is something to aim for, IMO from "zadatak.wav" it is not possible to create something indistinguishable from resenje.wav , no matter how much time...