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I can't tell whether you were joking with that last reply!

I found that after EQing , and getting the best that I can get (but with loads of red peaks), I use Normalise or Amplify and the track is killed off again and made really quiet and dull . So I undid that and this time, after EQ, I tried Compression instead , at default — which removed most of the re...

Wow, Bill!

I'm using that now, it's amazing.

Thanks,
John

Thanks Steve. Much clearer now. I'll give it a go. I wish it was possible to use the EQ sliders while the sound is playing, instead of making an adjustment, clicking 'preview', then making another adjustment, preview, over and over. If you use the stand-ins, call the original artists and say, "Do yo...

Hi Folks, Thanks for all the advice. Okay, I should have realised that ' noise ' refers to like tape hiss or whatever. The racket and distortion in this recording completely obscures any of that! It's the least of my problems. So there was a mention of EQ boosting the volume , I think. I can imagine...

Hi All, I digitised some of a cassette tape of my band's rehearsal in the 80s. The recording was always terrible and unlistenable, because the microphone was completely overloaded and it came out mostly as broken up noise! But I'm starting to feel like Gene Hackman's character ' Harry Call ' in the ...

Thanks everyone, for your help
John

Hi Steve,

What does 'wet' mean in this context?

Are you saying that adjusting EQ with the envelope tool is non-pernmanent/non-destructive?

Thanks,
John

Hi Steve, thanks for the reply.
So if I get near the end of polishing up the song having eq'd and added reverb, say, and amplified stuff, I can't go back to and earlier stage and redo eq for example?

I'm assuming that tweaking the eq on the same bit up and down etc., might degrade things.

John

Hi Folks, I've started using Audacity to digitise and improve some very old and poor live recordings of my band from cassette. My question is: when I adjust EQ say, is it permanently applied to the track (destructive) unless I 'undo?' If so, does that mean I should duplicate the track—edit it, and k...