Audacity Forum

I have attached a couple of the WAV files that I resampled from 8000Hz to 16000Hz. The bigger file became about twice as big, and the smaller file became about four times bigger than an original file. My expectations were that both will about double its original size. Pleas also attach the originals.

"Out of the box" Audacity will default to using 16-bit integers as it's working space. (I think the actual effects operations will still be done floating point, but after each effect the result is converted back to the default 16-bit integers). If you want to work in 32-bit float by defau...

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Download Audacity 2.1.0 installer (23.1 MB, includes help files) from here: http://web.audacityteam.org/download/windows During the installation, look for the option to "Reset Preferences" and ensure that is selected. On first launch, confirm that you wish to reset preferences. Then see th...

I trashed my test files, so no precise measurement. There was a visible signal, which looks like it would take about 9dB of amplification to get "right." Given that we generally recommend recording with a peak level of around -6 dB (for 16-bit recording), the recording level sounds as if ...

My assumption is what I mark with that green line indicating the height of tone frequency. The frequency is the "brightest" part of the spectrum. With your current settings it only shows that frequency is "somewhere around" 200 to 700 Hz. Increase the "Window size" (&q...

gd0 wrote:there is a simple Gain / No Gain switch. Of course, Gain clips and No Gain would require amplifying after the fact.

If you set the switch to "No Gain", how much level are you getting in Audacity? (how much amplification do you need to apply "after the fact"?)

FAMOsa wrote:Will the later versions of Audacity work on this old mac?

See http://web.audacityteam.org/download/mac#sysreq

eastcoastrob wrote:I'm using 2.1

Audacity version numbers have three parts, for example 2.1.0 or 2.0.1. All three parts are important. If you have "2.1" then it is not a genuine version.

steveh2010 wrote:The dialogue box does not appear when the timeline is right clicked so I can't even turn it off temporarily.

Please read my previous reply.