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Those numbers are supposed to be "quotes", but something has gone wrong in the conversion to html. It should read: Noise Reduction Audacity can remove some kinds of noise from a recording. Noise Reduction is an ‘audio effect’, one of the fiddlier audio effects to use. This effect works bes...

It sounds like there's a bit of audio missing.
The best you can do with that would be to cut out the bad bit (select and delete) then if necessary use the Repair effect across the join, like this:

I'm pleased that you found a solution, but something I still don't understand:

steve wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 26, 2020 1:23 pm

Why did it not detect a "silence" between 1:42 and 1:43? Was it because the silence was too short, or not silent enough?

or was it something else?

78s wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 07, 2020 8:07 pm

it has made all the difference and we can go ahead with our little project now

Super, very pleased to hear

Ideally you would use a mixing desk. Pan one signal all the way to the left and the other all the way to the right, then record in 2 channel stereo. When the recording is complete you can split the stereo track into two mono tracks: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/splitting_and_joining_stereo_tr...

Posting this here as it is becoming a common problem. Error message: "This file was saved using Audiotonic 2.1.0.0. You are using Audiotonic 2.4.2. You may need to upgrade to a newer version to open this file." The Audacity Team distribute the official Windows release version of Audacity v...

The problem is caused by the (unofficial) Windows Store version of Audacity. See: viewtopic.php?p=410197#p410197

If you record in mono (set the number of channels to "1 (mono)" in the Device Toolbar) then you will be recording both left and right into a mono track, and both will come out in both L/R output channels on playback.

Perhaps just me, but I'm hearing clicks before / after many of the words.

If you generate a tone ("Generate" menu), can you hear that when Audacity plays?