Audacity Forum

Richken71 wrote: ↑

Tue May 05, 2020 9:14 pm

.... As soon as the dialogue begins an underlying crackle and pop starts.
Can you suggest what this might be and a possible cure please? ...

Sounds like wet mouth noises, rather than an electronic problem.
De-Clicker is the solution, (store-bought declicker plugins are quicker).

.... Say I was trying apply a consistent Gollum voice to snippets of songs by different artists ... The brief was speaking skeleton , there was no mention of singing. Vocoding with noise will obliterate melody, whether it is sung or played on an instrument. (The only part of music which will surviv...

... dragon, monster ... voices are way too deep and menacing. If we are going to be realistic, my ghoul would be about 50 pounds ... I'm picturing a voice closer to LOTR Gollum. Fine to have an edge and be semi-scary. Also person might be 10 feet away, so want to err on side of clarity vs lots of r...

I am probably doing something very obvious wrong ... Not necessarily: some VST plug-ins are not compatible with Audacity. Sometimes it's necessary to use an older version, if it's available, The version of Ambeo Orbit I used is v1.0.0 , yours is v1.0.1 . There are similar plug-ins , the only other ...

Check the "enabled" check-box in the bottom left of the Ambeo GUI window is ticked.


If for some reason you are not hearing stereo, (e.g. faulty headphones),then you won't hear the Ambeo effect.

Problem solved. I've just remembered how to do it. It's very easy. Now if I record an initial solo singing track, then record that track over itself, it instantly ends up sounding like 2 people singing. Duplicating or copying the initial recording doesn't produce that same sound of 2 people singing...

digicube wrote: ↑

Tue May 05, 2020 3:03 am

... trying to increase the loudness of a conversation recording without clipping.
I tried amplify but it requires clipping to be loud enough.

Sounds like you need a compressor-limiter combo plugin, like LevelSpeech2.ny

...when i click apply it amplifies the sound like it has applies the ambisonic effect, but when played back it doesn't do any of the actions that i have applied ... In Audacity on my Windows 8 computer, the Ambeo plugin pauses, (doing nothing), for ~15 seconds before it begins to apply the effect. ...

Try disconnecting the internet when Audacity is running.
( in some cases WiFi driver can interrupt audio playback ).

Giving Audacity "above normal" CPU-priority is worth a try.

... the very slight lag is still there, but will probably work for this project. lag, aka latency, is a different issue from loopback. Lag is correctable in Audacity via "latency compensation" ... https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/latency_test.html https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/de...