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If you want an effect that makes a recording sound like it is over a telephone, try the "Telephone" preset in the Equalization effect.

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Check that the recording settings in the Windows Sound Control Panel are set for 2 channel stereo recording.

I needed it because, on some such files, the sound comes into only one ear; oddly this isn't always the case. That will happen if the "mono" file is a 2 channel (stereo) file with sound in one channel and silence in the other. It will not occur with one channel mono files (unless somethin...

it is a single-channel mono track (it says Mono, I think) - a screengrab is attached. How do I duplicate it to stereo? Thanks! As far as I'm aware, the only way to do that is to use an external program to handle the export (http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/exporting_to_an_external_program.html)...

ravenhill wrote: If fact, it's on a computer not visible.

What does that mean?

Is it possible to put this into a chain so that I can apply it automatically to a lot of files? 1) amplify as much as possible without clipping. Yes, use the "Normalize" effect in a chain. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/normalize.html 2) copy the one channel into the second channel ...

Oscarman wrote:Would this issue be solved using professional software?

No. The same problem will occur in all software. If the mix level is too high it will distort.

View menu > Show Clipping. This will produce a thin red vertical line at each place where the audio clips at 0 dB. As you can from your audio sample, the clipping is severe: firsttrack001.png "Mixing" tracks "adds" the waveforms together, causing the mix to have a higher peak lev...

To use custom icons, "Theme support" needs to be enabled. Note that this is an experimental feature. It was enabled in Audacity 1.3.8 but not in later versions. To enable Theme support in the current version of Audacity requires building Audacity from the source code and enabling theme sup...