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Perhaps the "Truncate Silence" effect: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tr ... lence.html

For more detailed information and usage tips, read the help file included in this ZIP package, or the help screens included in the plug-in.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqui ... Noise_Gate

Which exact model of "Avid M-Audio Fast Track Audio Interface" do you have?

ammaarsaiyed wrote:how to remove the beating such as from the clip I uploaded

The Noise Gate plug-in: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqui ... Noise_Gate
See the top of that page for download and installation instructions.

Try using the "WASAPI loopback" method described here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... ndows.html

OK, so here's the first problem that needs to be resolved. This picture compares your recording with an "ideal" raw voice recording. Note that the "ideal" recording shows the voice waveform peaking to about half the track height whereas the voice waveform in your track is barely ...

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achester99 wrote:I have resolved the issue.

For the benefit of other users, perhaps you could say how?

I'm trying to do my own first book narration. Topic moved to the "Audiobook" section. I need to set up audacity to produce files that measure between -23db and 18db and have -3db peak values and a maximum -60db noise floor. Your describing the "ACX standard" except that you are ...

Jackxxx wrote:I am using an m-audio box and a microphone

For future recordings, set Audacity to record "1 channel mono" in the "device toolbar" and then you will get a mono track (from your mono microphone) that plays out of both speakers.

My guess is that you are recording a mono source (such as a microphone input).