Audacity Forum

DVDdoug wrote:I've forgotten the ACX requirements

"measure between -23dB and -18dB RMS and have -3dB peak values and a maximum -60dB noise floor"
http://www.acx.com/help/acx-audio-submi ... /201456300

Audacity can't help you copy a file from your phone to your computer, but once it is on your computer, if it is in a supported audio format, you can import it into Audacity with:
"File menu > Import > Audio..."

In Audacity 2.2.2 you can use "Alt + Left" and "Alt + Right". Those may not be available in 2.2.0, but even if they are, it's worth upgrading: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ If you like using keyboard shortcuts, it is worth enabling the full set of shortcuts in 2....

Audacity will use libogg (from http://www.xiph.org/) if it identifies the file as an OGG file, otherwise it will try to import with FFmpeg if FFmpeg is installed.

You can label sounds that are above a set threshold level, then skip from label to label.
1) http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/sound_finder.html
2) http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/sound_finder.html

I don't think the bass needs to come down much, but at the moment, if you bring the bass down it will tend to get lost behind the guitar. Each instrument needs a bit of room to breath. Instruments should blend, but not fight each other. The mix now sounds to me like the bass and guitar are competing...

It's difficult to tell for sure with just the mix-down version, but I'd suggest that you try taking a bit of low-end off the guitar (around 300 Hz and below) so as to leave more "space" for the bass line. That may make the guitar sound a bit "thin" on it's own, but your audience ...

Be careful with the LADSPA plug-ins. They are ancient 3rd party plug-ins. Many are buggy, and they have not been updated in many years. We have recently been discussing retiring these plug-ins for those reasons. The official website for these plug-ins has a little information: http://plugin.org.uk/ ...

The problem does not affect Linux.

On Sierra, the " Configure custom FFmpeg options" dialog appears on top after clicking the " Open custom FFmpeg format options " button. A slight weirdness ("bug") is that if I then click on the " Save " dialog, the " Save " dialog comes to the front...