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If the original file was heavily clipped (as indicated by the abundance of red) there will be a lot of places where the waveform is (clipped) at 0 dB. Red lines will occur if the audio touches 0 dB even if it is not actually clipped. The Leveller effect will often bring audio up to (but not beyond) ...

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For speech, ensure that all of the files are mono before you encode (no point in "wasting bits" on making a stereo recording). Try the preset called "Medium". For mono voice that should give a good amount of compression and quite good quality. If you need a smaller file than that...

Black Dog Bluez wrote:it looks like they have (1) talent, (2) thousands of dollars worth of equipment!

The "microphone" in front of them is the ever popular Zoom H2. It's an "all in one" pocket recorder, that currently sells on Amazon for $187.00 US.

I can forsee lots of forum postings where the user accidentally selects on one of a pair of stereo tracks , applies the effect and then wonders why the fade goes the wrong way around To which the reply is a brief: "See HERE ". I'll put that link in my bookmarks between http://manual.audac...

The fade shape is the "classic" raised cosine shape (an "S" curve or "sine" fade, give or take 180 degrees) http://transom.org/tools/photos/200309_stupidfades/crossfade.240.gif?9d7bd4 http://transom.org/?p=7543 Regarding your big butt, how easy is it to accidentally get...

These screenshots were not taken on Windows 7 so they will look a little bit different, but should be basically the same. This is the Audacity "Help Menu" showing where you need to click to get the version information: Audacity-help-menu.png This is the top of the "About Audacity"...

Does it only occur when you are making an overdub recording?

New cross-fade plug-in posted here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 49#p187849

To achieve a "perfect" cross fade, I generally find it easiest to align the tracks and apply the cross-fade before trimming any excess from the end of the first track or the start of the second track. Of course this is a matter of personal preference, but here is an example of cross-fading...