Audacity Forum

Thanks everyone this was extremely informative!!!

Not exactly. Inside Audacity , any effect or filter can be applied without permanent sound damage. Outside of Audacity , the old rules apply. Anything over 0 gets whacked off. Ah, I think I am "getting it" now. "Outside of Audacity" includes the sound card itself, before the sound is passed to Auda...

32-bit float is unheard of for sound cards. It may deliver the audio data in 32-bit float format, but the conversion from analog to digital will be 24-bit integer at best So are you suggesting that the peaks above 0dB are being flattened by the sound card before they arrive at Audacity? If so, unde...

I've read that when recording in Audacity's 32bit float sample format, peaks that extend beyond 0dB can be deamplified without any cliping. I've been attempting this, but when I deamplify, the peaks are flat. The recording is fresh, newly captured. (I haven't exported the recording or anything that ...