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"Analyze > Plot Spectrum" shows the frequency content (spectrum) of the selected audio: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/plot_spectrum.html
Generally the "logarithmic" scale ("Axis" setting) is more useful when analyzing voice or music.

When dealing with signals, dB is almost always with reference to "full scale". In the case of Audacity, "full scale" is when the waveform touches top or bottom of the track. For integer formats (16 bit / 24 bit) "full scale" (0 dB) equates to the maximum/minimum numeric...

Set the recording input in the device toolbar to the device that you are using (such as microphone or line in).

Determining notes reliably is quite a complex matter, and becomes many time more complicated if there is more than one note playing at a time (polyphony). There is a "pitch detect" Nyquist plugin which is able to analyse the pitch of single notes reasonably accurately: http://wiki.audacity...

LW2nd wrote:I did get that to successfully record in stereo

Using the USB connection?

that's how i learn by copying the oscillator. That's fine, but the code that you posted is incomplete and does not work. I think it will be much easier for me to help you if we start with something that does work. That is why I am asking if you can provide the original plugin that you have copied f...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_wavelet_transform OK, so a bit more complicated than addition or multiplication, but nevertheless it is still just a mathematical operation and in itself "does" nothing. Audacity has a couple of FFT functions, which of themselves are not very inter...

Perhaps we can advance most quickly if we begin with some working code.
I presume that you copied the "n harmonic oscillator" from another plugin. Is there a link where we can find that plugin, or could you post that plugin here.

So is recording at near -12dB and then normalizing to -3dB not advised? I would normally record a little higher than that - usually around -6 dB peak, but as DVDdoug says, if you're getting good results, then that is what matters. It is more important that you do not record too loud. Hitting 0 dB i...