Audacity Forum

Is "1" an octave wide, "3" a third octave? "10" a tenth of an octave wide? Up to 1 hundredth? Thousand? Higher Q is a narrower notch. It's calculated as fc/bw, where fc is the centre frequency and bw is the -3dB bandwidth. In practice you would normally use Q values in...

Mapping audio I/O is on the "to do" list, but I believe it is a major, and difficult job.

Have you looked in the AudioMIDI Setup application?
"Finder > Go > Utilities > AudioMIDI Setup"

What devices are listed and how are they listed?

Pobinr wrote:Is this when using SPDIF into the cards ?

No. Digital inputs usually come after the analog inputs.

I've replaced the files now (this post).
Hopefully this will make more sense now.

Usually it is better to "reduce" the noise rather than remove it completely. Dead silence between words sounds rather weird. For reducing hiss, the Noise Reduction effect is usually quite effective: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/noise_reduction.html For removing or reducing low freque...

It's not you, or your broadband.
I'm not sure what went wrong, but the files in the forum post are wrong.
Sorry about the confusion. I'll delete those files and replace them.

a little concerned about updating something and inadvertently breaking something I didn't realize people were used to. I suppose that's how we wound up here anyway, right? I think the importance of leading silence was underestimated. I prototyped something instead that works for what I need in the ...

steve wrote:turn off (de-select) the option to normalize on import.

Do you understand why that option is the problem or would you like a bit of explanation?

Tim Lookingbill wrote:See screengrab from Audacity 2.1.3 for Mac.

Open Audacity Preferences, and in the "Import/Export" section, turn off (de-select) the option to normalize on import.

The reason I ask is the first tone of the -3db Peak showing clipping What do you mean "showing clipping"? There is no clipping in either of the files that I posted. Just to see what editing this way does to the original 5 sounds, what loudness level did they start out at? It doesn't matte...