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by steve
Fri Aug 04, 2017 12:28 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: What is causing these big dips?
Replies: 28
Views: 2223

Re: What is causing these big dips?

Wow, that's dramatic. If you record the LP a second time, do you get those dips at exactly the same place in the music? I'm guessing they don't. What turntable are you using and how is it connected to your Mac? Any special reason why you posted this on the Windows forum board rather than the Mac boa...
by steve
Thu Aug 03, 2017 11:19 pm
Forum: Adding Features to Audacity
Topic: cloud-sync workflow support
Replies: 2
Views: 928

Re: cloud-sync workflow support

Putting it out here in case it's a really bad idea I don't think it's a "bad" idea, but a huge amount of effort has gone into making Audacity work reliably with local storage, and we still see failures (such as machines going to sleep and wiping the temp data, or "system tune up"...
by steve
Thu Aug 03, 2017 10:49 pm
Forum: General Audio Programming
Topic: Sound Loudness, DBFS, SPL
Replies: 4
Views: 16954

Re: Sound Loudness, DBFS, SPL

There are several problems that would need to be solved, and I'm not sure that the all can be solved. 1) A-weighted filters are generally designed for accuracy over the audio spectrum, and (unless scientifically calibrated and certified) are not likely to be very accurate at the ultrasonic (or infra...
by steve
Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:07 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Removing a Bad Russian Dub Job
Replies: 4
Views: 982

Re: Removing a Bad Russian Dub Job

txeconvet wrote:Is there no way to remove the Russian on top or extract the English underneath?
Not with any technology that I'm aware of.
Perhaps someone skilled in lip-reading could help.
by steve
Thu Aug 03, 2017 6:27 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: No audio upon export
Replies: 14
Views: 1572

Re: No audio upon export

What is your "D:" drive? Is it a network drive or USB drive?
by steve
Thu Aug 03, 2017 6:00 pm
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: noise reduction
Replies: 9
Views: 1198

Re: noise reduction

yes into a rodec mixer, but i do not have a line in on my portable - only a headphone jack, maybe that's the problem. Yes that's unlikely to give good results. When connecting up equipment it is important that the signal levels match. An inexpensive way to add line level inputs to a laptop computer...
by steve
Thu Aug 03, 2017 5:50 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Adding randomized silence (Windows 10, Audacity 2.1.3)
Replies: 86
Views: 7072

Re: Adding randomized silence (Windows 10, Audacity 2.1.3)

Your welcome.
I think we're done so I'll close this topic now.
by steve
Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:39 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Adding randomized silence (Windows 10, Audacity 2.1.3)
Replies: 86
Views: 7072

Re: Adding randomized silence (Windows 10, Audacity 2.1.3)

Yes that will give you a maximum value of "0", and the minimum (most negative) is -5 x 9 = -45 (I don't recall, did you want -45 or -50?) but you don't really need to add "0":
(* -5 (random 10))
by steve
Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:21 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Audacity 2.1.3 won't open file from Finder context menu
Replies: 1
Views: 472

Re: Audacity 2.1.3 won't open file from Finder context menu

I'm not on Mac, but I'm aware that there have been some fixes for file opening on macOS in the new version of Audacity that is due to be released soon.
The release will be announced on this forum, the main website, facebook, twitter and Google+
by steve
Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:16 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Audacity 2.1.3 Win 10 and Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 [SOLVED]
Replies: 1
Views: 1659

Re: Audacity 2.1.3 Win 10 and Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 [SOLVED

Thanks for posting the fix.
I've marked this topic as solved and locked it so that it will be easier for others to find.