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Amplify the track with default settings before you apply the compressor. That will (mostly) prevent the compressor from making the loudest parts louder. You can amplify the track to a lower level later if you wish.

I would NOT recommend using the Leveller effect because it creates distortion.

OK guys - my question is - if it sounds OK, can I just ignore it please? Short answer, yes I think you can ignore it. Longer answer: Generally for voice recording I would record in mono. There is only one of you talking, so there is little benefit to record in stereo. There is a bit of "rumble...

First thing is to ensure that your recording does not suffer from "DC offset" (see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/dc_offset.html) When making edits, always try to start and end the edit at places that are silent or close to silence. It can also help to make the start and end of the ...

The waveform looks a little "unusual" to me, but waveforms often do. When speaking very close to a microphone, there can be strong sub-sonic (very low frequency) peaks in one direction due to the initial blast of air. Listening to this through small speakers may sound OK because small spea...

As Koz said, it could be due to a fault in the microphone, but more likely to just be a characteristic of your voice. Brass instruments often produce waveforms that look "uneven" in this way. I'd suggest that you try recording some other things (other voices, your dog, the TV, ...). If the...

If we have several "tuned" sound types for the click, it will be obvious to those users that they are all tuned to the same note (albeit that they may be in different octaves), so "discovering" the default tuning is trivial. I don't think that we need to explicitly state that in ...

That should fit in the box, and you're the expert on language, so Ill be happy with that. On my machine: "Alternating Out / In" fits OK and spaces either side of the "/" is easier to read than "Out/In". To my uneducated eye, "Alternate Out / In" "looks&q...

Perhaps "Alternating Out/In" and "Alternating In/Out" would be slightly clearer. That should fit in the box, and you're the expert on language, so Ill be happy with that. "Out/In pairs" and "In/Out pairs" would be shorter but a little less clear. I agree. Let...

Gale Andrews wrote:Might someone out there be using the MIDI note feature to provide a tuning reference point

You mean that someone might crate a click track and then tune their guitar to it? Like tuning a guitar to a metronome?
If we are going to worry about that then we should make the default A440.

There are a number of options depending on what result you hope to achieve. See these parts of the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/change_speed.html http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/change_tempo.html http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sliding_time_scale_pitch_shift.html http://man...