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Attachments SM7B_Cloudlifter.mp3 (346.5 KiB) USB_Mic_RAW.mp3 (234 KiB) The SM7B sounds very good, apart from the slight mains hum. I'm just at a loss for knowing what's causing the dirty signal. Mains hum can be picked-up inductively by the microphone cable, (a bit like a radio antenna). If the mic...

I think I found all the formulae and spells ... -test of chapter 2 using audacityMastered_NR_AndDeEsswav.wav That should work. I suppressed all or most of the piercing SS sounds leaving your normal crisp voice and delivery. The de-essing has gone a bit too far: " thith may sound ". More b...

I would like to see the total time for a project when tracks are not aligned end-to-end. Select all the project, ("ctrl"+"A"), then a counter at the bottom of the screen will show the total length ... https://manual.audacityteam.org/m/images/9/9e/selectiontoolbarannotated.png Ch...

... If a noise floor is too quiet what does one do? ... Could add-in very-faint comfort noise . But preferably find out what is causing the problem, (possibly a noise-gate is being applied before the sound gets to Audacity). Bear in mind the Audacity ACX tool can give spurious values for the noise-...

I am helping an older woman with audio recording her own book... Beth Voice sample.wav (604.63 KiB) I can hear compression artefacts, (on "Beth" & "fourth"), which is making matters worse. If you can use uncompressed audio, rather than lossy format like mp3, it would avoid t...

Bit depth is 32 bits, must be 16 or 24 bits. When you export (save) there is a drop-down menu where you can select the bit depth ... https://forum.audacityteam.org/download/file.php?id=3802 "WAV (Microsoft) signed 16-bit PCM" is universally accepted. If you need to make a mono recording i...

... The waveform is so small I can barely see it. Where is a button to enlarge ... Vertical zoom method may have changed since you last used Audacity. The new default method of vertical zooming is the "simple" version ... https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/vertical_zooming.html#simple Th...

I'm not sure how to set the threshold based on RMS. I note "RMS" was just written on the pic in red ;-) There is a tool in Audacity to measure the RMS volume of selected audio ... https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/measure_rms.html (RMS is just a suggestion: you may need to use a more ne...

... your "After" tweaking sounds to me like a decent alternative ... I just reduced the bass (<250Hz) using a real-time equaliser plug-in until it started to sound unacceptably tinny, then backed off. If you look at the frequency analysis of before Vs after then you can see how much bass ...

kozikowski wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 16, 2020 1:46 am

I suppose that could be upside down ...

Or the back of someone's head with a bump on the crown.

kozikowski wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 16, 2020 1:46 am

Can I use that?

Yes. (Filter:Generic:Erode in GIMP thickens lines).