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I cannot seem to get this VST effect to show up in my Audacity Effects file. It does download to my computer but how do I get it into Audacity? You have to tick the box I have coloured yellow in Audacity preferences below, then close all instances of Audacity, when you restart Audacity all the VST ...

MinHooi wrote: Reversing the sound? How?

"Reverse" (i.e. backwards) is in Effect menu ...

kozikowski wrote:It's amazing. Even with some weapons-grade damage to the monolog, you can still make out some of the words.Koz

True of sine-speech, once you've heard it a few times ...
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/mat ... ve-speech/

Rectifying the waveform mangles the sound quite a bit ...
but it does alter the frequency content.

Put the code below into the "nyquist prompt" (in Effect menu) to rectify

Maybe "sine-speech" ... http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Sine-wave_speech
I don't have a clue how to produce "sine-speech" on Audacity, but there is other free software to produce it ... http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

snorkyller wrote:Does that means that the spectrum plot should ideally be flat?

See frequency analysis spectrum of your recordings of the same person made using "a different radiocassette player".

snorkyller wrote:Attachments
sample.wav

That sounds like noise reduction has been applied, which may be responsible for the unsatisfactory equalization.
Better quality may be possible from the raw original, (i.e. before any noise reduction has been applied).

John78 wrote:Is there anyway I can make everyone's voice sound at same level?

Dynamic range compression ... http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Compressor

"Chris's Compressor" plugin is better than Audacity's native compressor ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 42&t=58958

I had a quick look but couldn't find the manual for the Anders Nicholson USB Turntable TR-W-155-C


Does being made of wood make the sound better ?

If you can get a copy of the bing-bong sound on its own you could try spectrally subtracting it from the show using the Kn0ck0ut* plugin , but I wouldn't get your hopes up if I were you, it may remove the bing-bong but what's left will be distorted by digital artifacts ... http://st3pan0va.webs.com/...