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Bass Boost is no longer shipped with Audacity. Among the reasons why it has been discontinued is the fact that if too much boost is inadvertently applied, it will permanently damage the audio (non-correctable distortion). Bass Boost was a second order low shelf filter with a slope of 1.0. The freque...

MP3 achieves small file size by discarding "unimportant" information and squashing the remaining data tightly together. Because very high frequencies are virtually inaudible, that is some of the first information to be discarded.

1. Surrounding noise means the noises from the surrounding places, like noise of fans, coolers, and other disturbances Avoiding noise when recording is much more effective than trying to remove unwanted noise afterwards. Find as quiet a location as possible, The recording location should ideally be...

My DAT tapes have a sampling rate of 48,000 sample/second. So you will probably need to set the "Project Rate" to 48000 - you can do that directly in the lower left corner of the main Audacity window, or if you are going to do a lot of this then you can set the default to 48000 in "E...

steve wrote:I'll start a new forum topic about this modification, and if enough people think that it is worthwhile then perhaps it will be included in the next release version.

Topic posted here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 34#p213134
Please feel free to add your comments to that topic.

This topic is in parallel with a discussion on the Audacity QA e-mail list. As most forum users are not on that list I thought that it would be useful to also raise the issue here (and also post some screenshots). The question of how to join files end to end comes up quite regularly (for example: ht...

so I have tried recording on channels 1-4 and lo and behold I have sound on 3/4, and flat line on 1/2!! So is this how I would record, on 1-4 and then delete 1/2 afterwards? Assuming that there is no way on the DMX 6fire to configure which channels the phono inputs connect to, then yes I think that...

Either click the button for the normal "Selection Tool", http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tools_toolbar.html
or press the F1 key.

The correct download location is here: http://audacityteam.org/download/mac
Installation instructions are also provided on that page,

Do I need to create a folder with all of the files I want to concatenate, and the program then grabs them all? If that is the case [haven't tried that yet], it then seems there would be no opportunity to specify the order they are to be concatenated. If all else fails, try reading the instructions ...