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Do you mean the vertical height of the waveform? If so, then if it is something that you have recorded, you probably need to increase the recording level. A good level to aim for is for peaks that are about half the track height (so as to allow a bit for any occasional spikes that may be a bit highe...

Do let me know how you get on

IMO, it's generally best to record "clean" because you can't always un-do the effects in software. You also have more choices for less money with software. But some people use a hardware compressor/limiter to "tame" unexpected peaks before they hit the ADC, because compressing/l...

Please check which version of Audacity you are using. (Look in the "Help menu > About Audacity").
If you are not using Audacity 2.0.5, please update. You can get the current version (free) from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/

Here's a couple of simple experiments that you can try. They will be a gentle (and practical) introduction to using Nyquist. When you have tried these, have a look at the links that I posted previously. If you have further questions (I'm sure you will ;)) please start a new topic on the Nyquist foru...

There might be other applications, such as rhythm quantization or synchronization. Ask back in a few years... :grin: Tempo detection is a popular request, but also quite hard to do with complex music. A very simple technique that can help a lot is to have user defined upper and lower limits. Even i...

The expensive parts of a sound card tend to be the microphone pre-amplifiers and the case. The Behringer UCA 202 and similar have a cheap plastic (but adequate as long as you don't drop a heavy amp on it). It has no microphone pre-amps. If you already have a good microphone pre-amp, there may not be...

Try these instructions: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/CompilingAudacityForBeginners#Example_compiling_the_latest_Audacity_source_code_on_Ubuntu_and_derivatives_.28like_Linux_Mint.29 Note that source code repositories need to be enabled (as it says in the note below the steps 1 to 8). When you ru...

Where were we up to? Ah yes, we've panned a stereo track from one side to the other. Does that all make sense so far? So now you want to pan over 6 seconds, stay at that position for 2 seconds, then pan back .... and so on. When we previously used PWLV, we defined the break point times relative to t...

When WxWidgets is installed, it installs a load of libraries that will be used when building a WxWidgets application (such as Audacity). For these libraries to be available, they need to be known to the system - that's what ldconfig does - it configures the bindings to the new libraries. Usually, re...