Audacity Forum

I appreciate it. I have to wrestle with this more myself, I realize I can't answer the question intelligently. I think that some of the voice recordings I work on are coming down almost to zero after noise cleaning between words and so noisegate sounds very natural and works terrifically to remove s...

Thank you, Steve. It may be obvious to you knowing Noise Gate so well, but I am unable so far to figure out, using a consistent level reduction of -12 dB in vocals that seem to have comparable amounts of background noise, I sometimes accidentally get the quiet parts reduced to absolute silence, whil...

Noisegate often does precisely what I expect in that it reduces or eliminates heavy breaths, etc. between vocal phrases, but doesn't eliminate all background noise. Every so often, it seems to behave differently and in this case it unexpectedly reduces the room noise pauses between words to total si...

Thank you, Gale!

In my search to hotkey the world I am wondering if anyone has figured out a clever way to:

- hotkey a particular EQ effect inside the EQ menu

- hotkey switching between Waveform and Waveform DB in the timeline?

TIA!

Thank you for the insight on the hub, Koz. That is great to know. You are right about a give-up date. I almost pulled the trigger on a blue yeti this week, but I felt I wasn't ready since I didn't understand anything about the nature of the problem with my existing USB mic. I actually like this mic ...

So, I have tried all these suggestions, which were great. and actually had one audio driver update, which I don't think has ever happened before (the message "your drivers are up to date" have been eternally consistent until now). I also took the mic from room to room and floor to floor and also thr...

Oh, nice. I am going to try this tonight, thank you, it would be just fantastic if this dropped out! Thanks also for the notch suggestions.

Hello, I am quite new to the sound world and have untrained ears and technique. I am just trying to produce a decent narration. I have the USB CAD u37 mic. It seems that the mic itself creates a sine-wave type whine that is, very roughly, around 3220 hz. This mic records quite low so if I amplify to...

Koz -- thank you so much for this grand overview of the microphone world. You have given me a lot of perspective I wouldn't ever get on my own. Obviously, as you say, there is no simple spend-a-few-dollars-and-get-great-sound solution. So I will work this mic as well as I can and not just throw mone...