Audacity Forum

The sample rate is set by the "Project rate" (bottom left corner of the main Audacity window) as it's always been. To set the bit-depth, 16-bit and 32-bit float WAV are listed separately in the format selector. For other bit-depths, use "other uncompressed files". For more detail...

To enable spectral editing in Audacity 2.1.2, please see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/spectral_selection.html However, I don't think that spectral editing will help in this case. Does your setup record other sounds OK? The "buzzy" type sound does not appear to be only a low frequenc...

when I playback a track it sounds okay for the first bar or so and starts fading in an out with a weird phasing effect. Is that a track that you've recorded, or one that you've imported? If you generate a 30 second tone (Generate menu > Tone), does that play correctly (as a constant tone)? If it's ...

When I try to change the bit depth from the drop tab on the channel, Audacity stops responding. I'm guessing that Audacity does not normally do that. You're aware that with 16 hours of audio, just about everything in Audacity will be slow? I notice, on the stereo channel, that it defaults to "...

I'm unsure what you're asking because I don't know what that's supposed to sound like.
Do you mean the "shhh" at the end?

something like this https://www.dropbox.com/s/sglhwq4ghzamj8p/waveform.jpg?dl=0 That doesn't appear to be what you asked for in your previous posts. That "Waveform Designer" appears to be for generating tones rather than for modifying music. Yes you can generate tones with Audacity. The T...

By default, Audacity only looks for devices when launched, so devices should be connected and recognized by the operating system before you launch Audacity.
If Audacity is launched first, then it is necessary to tell Audacity to "rescan audio devices" (in the "Transport" menu).

The two effects that you need are, "distortion" and "band limiting". Currently Audacity does not include a dedicated "distortion" effect, but the "Leveller" effect can be used for that. Higher "Degrees of leveling" settings produce noticeable amounts...

Perhaps if you describe in detail, (possibly with illustrations), an example of what you want to do, we may understand what you mean.

1. How do I determine "the maximum RMS level" of an audio with Audacity? You can estimate by looking at the height of the light blue region of the waveform For mono tracks you can measure the RMS level with "Analyze > Contrast" You can use one of the Nyquist plug-ins such as wav...