Audacity Forum

Argentati wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 28, 2020 8:17 pm

I am trying to generate a synthetic ocean wave sound ...

There's an app for that : "Surf-lfo.ny"

Spectrogram view is worth a look if you are trying to align notes.

https://youtu.be/eKzANNYfHt0?t=78

... I tried it with extreme panning.... and it worked! My pan exported was not "extreme" ... Windows can add a playback audio-enhancement which introduces crossover between left & right. That would prevent you hearing any extreme panning. You can check whether Windows is applying an e...

... I also downloaded the Loudmax plug-in ... is an alternative maximiser which will work with Audacity? LoudMax is just a (brickwall?) limiter with make-up gain. Audacity has one of those built-in ... https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/limiter.html (Use the "hard" rather than "soft...

... I recorded a stereo test audio from YouTube ove Chrome browser on my latop. When I playback the recorded audio, the audio is normal for about half of a second. Then the audio level drops ... Any ideas on what can be done? Turn-off Windows audio-enhancements, (such as "loudness equalization...

... I realised the panning didn't work ... it turns out the problem seems to be the operational system ... Windows: Many USB recording devices, even if stereo, are seen as "microphones" so set by Windows to record in mono. If Audacity is set to record in stereo this will cause both channe...

... As for the Couture program, that is a plugin I can use in Audacity? Do you suggest I use that and TDR Nova after mastering the audio in Audacity? ... Both TDR Nova & Couture plugins are free, and will run on Audacity on Windows, (NB: Currently only the 32-bit versions of plugins will work i...

... It does sound a little.....empty I guess to me? Not echo-y per se, but maybe a slight reverb ... There is a hollowness, which, ( as Koz mentioned ), could be due to noise-reduction, or reflections from hard surfaces in your booth, (e.g. desktop). The hollowness is fixable with equalization. The...

There is no fix for echoes. "Big Room" sounds are permanent, so you have to not make them during the recording ... Store-bought $oftware can reduce room-reverb, but the cure is almost as bad as the disease ... 'AWS', before-after dereverb.flac The real cure is to treat acoustically-treat ...

chadwtursi wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 23, 2020 2:45 am

... Painstakingly figure out where to introduce some noise/tone ...

Just generate a very faint (-70dB) Brownian noise track the same length as your reading.

Optional: AutoDuck the noise track with the vocal of you only want noise when you are not speaking.