Audacity Forum

I am +1 on this new GUI; "look ahead" and "overshoot" work fine for me as long as I also have "center" for Silence Finder. To clarify, what I had in mind was that: Mark Start: (point label) will be set "early" (before the start of the detected sound/silence) ...

Try and make edits at "zero crossing points" (see here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/ed ... .html#zero )

If you look around you will probably be able to pick up a really cheap CD player second hand.

ngr wrote:It it possible to scramble/distort a persons voice, so he becomes unrecognizable?

I presume that you mean "and still intelligible".
Try the Vocoder effect: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/vocoder.html

allegro1650 wrote:Now, if only there were a way to compensate for Dolby B and C... I've got shoeboxes full of old cassettes,

Dolby is proprietary, so there are no free versions. Does your cassette player not have Dolby built in?

jpjuggler wrote: is it just an encoder/decoder for certain audio files?

Yes.

I did not have much success with it on a very contrived spoken clip where I had amplified to +2 dB, inverted a few samples in two separate regions, then de-amplified to -6 dB. ESP Clip Fix audibly (and visually) had a little more effect than standard Clip Fix. No it won't work on that. In real case...

There is a new setting in Preferences that you might like to try:
Edit menu > Preferences > Interface > Show track name in waveform display

Silence Finder: Place a Point Label a specified distance in front of the "end" of the silence. Strange isn't it :? Let me read that again; "A specified distance in front of the end of the silence" - In other words, "a specified distance before the sound "? I've always ...

It sounds like what you are trying to do is like asking two people to make two different telephone calls at the same time with one telephone. Why do you need to run both FRAPS and Audacity at the same time on the same machine? i want to make audacity not record game sound and only my voice Then you...