Audacity Forum

Thanks again Peter. I realize (as Steve implied earlier) that putting the warning in the Wiki is sort of a "slippery slope", since most effects can have unanticipated side effects. But - at least for this end user - that is the best place, since it is easily overlooked in the Effects & Analyzers men...

Thanks for following up on this.

Then suggest a generic Effects page that you can link to - and add links to this page from the individual effects as needed. E.g., something along these lines: For additional information would send you to a page that had this info. OR - at a minimum - add some sort of obvious warning in the Index of...

Steve - Thank you for your timely response. I understand and agree with almost everything you said. That said, I still haven't made myself clear. My issue is with the documentation. If an effect that is labeled to alter X (the time domain) also significantly alters Y (peak level), then that should b...

In the documentation of the SoundTouch Library - which is here: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/SoundTouch - could we add a little note at the end of the third paragraph? Anything along these lines would be fine: Note: While the SBSMS algorithm will preserve the overall loudness of the original t...

Apologies if this response comes off as a bit hostile, but I don't understand your response. Here was my question: Apart from the obvious - such as some peak limiting - does anyone have a better idea? So clearly I did not need any instructions on how to implement peak limiting - and in fact that is ...

Well, my previous post was overly optimistic. It turns out that most of increasing volume - at least on my project - occurred on peaks. I.e., existing peaks in the original were accentuated. So simply reducing the gain by -3 DB has the effect of noticeably reducing the overall volume. Not good. :x A...

My previous post was overly optimistic. The increased amplitude caused by change tempo occurs mostly on peaks - so if I amplify the final result by -3 db the total sound is significantly lower.

Apart from the obvious such as doing some peak limiting, does anyone have a better idea?

This is a very late response, but I replicated the behavior reported by CraigG58 that "Change Tempo" is increasing my volume. In my case I was decreasing the tempo by 6.1% and my peak volume increased roughly 2.5 DB - which was causing clipping (my original 24 bit 88.2K recording was mixed very "hot...