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waxcylinder wrote: And I notice that no-one's rushing to volunteer to write the initial draft ...

I noticed that too


I may have some time over the weekend.

The Noise Removal page in the manual is here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Noise_Removal The more noise that you try to remove, the more damage will be caused to the remaining sound. The effect works very well for low level constant noise, but if the noise level is too high then the best that ...

voltarian wrote:and now I can't record

Why not? What happens when you press the record button?

When playback is stopped:
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I see your point and have also argued the case myself for respecting the mute settings. The argument for not respecting the mute settings is that "Mix and Render" is intended to mix and render whichever tracks are "selected". So this may be just one track (in which case "Env...

That looks like the shift key is pressed. The shift key on the computer keyboard isn't stuck is it?

Edit menu > Preferences > Effects.
Disable (uncheck) VST effects.
(If the scan occurs each time that you start Audacity it is because you do not have any VST effects installed, so you don't need Audacity to keep looking for them).

I have one thing left to clean up, and I'm not sure what the correct technical term is so I'm having trouble finding the right filter or information and I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. The best way I can describe it is that it sounds like they were recorded in a big tube, or...

There is no "one way" to approach this but the way that I would probably do it: 1) Normalize to -3 dB 2) Equalizer/Plot Spectrum. Cut frequencies below 70 Hz severely to remove low frequency noise. Cut frequencies below about 120 Hz gently to roll off the lower tones of the man's voice. 3)...

I am somewhat inclined to add a sixth step/mini-tutorial to the http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tutorial_-_Copying_tapes,_LPs_or_minidiscs_to_CD tutorial on backup I think that "Backing up and Archiving" is important enough to warrant its own tutorial. Step 6 of the Copying_tapes,_LPs_...