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I would say even "linear" is ambiguous; I would have had no idea what that meant when I first stated with Audacity. "Straight line" might be kind of clearer. I don't know for sure what "S" is unless I go and look it up I asked my totally non-technical girlfriend to hav...

Tybalt wrote:Also, occasionally, I'll get this strange thing in Audacity where the horizontal sound boundaries are limited to an area inside the spectrum.

I'm not sure what you mean, but it'll probably come clear when you post a screen shot. There's no hurry

With which version of Audacity on what operating system?
How are you trying to "merge" the files? Are you importing both files into an Audacity Project? Are you trying to make the two files play at the same time or one after the other? At what point does Audacity lock up?

You can reduce the level using the Amplify effect, but if the audio has been recorded too hot then it will be distorted (clipped) and if the distortion is bad enough that it sounds distorted then it can't be fixed.

And here's a bandwidth limited (no aliasing) saw version: (setq low-freq 440) ; initial frequency - Hz (setq hi-freq 1320) ; final frequency - Hz (setq initial-amp 0.8) ; initial amplitude on a scale 0 to 1 (setq final-amp 0.1) ; final amplitude on a scale 0 to 1 (setq hz1 (min low-freq hi-freq)) (s...

This will give you a bandwidth limited (no aliasing) square wave siren chirp: (setq low-freq 440) ; initial frequency - Hz (setq hi-freq 1320) ; final frequency - Hz (setq initial-amp 0.8) ; initial amplitude on a scale 0 to 1 (setq final-amp 0.1) ; final amplitude on a scale 0 to 1 (setq hz1 (min l...

You will get some aliasing distortion (the distortion will sound similar to tuning in a short-wave radio) with this code, but otherwise this code should work for a sawtooth wave: (setq low-freq 440) ; initial frequency - Hz (setq hi-freq 1320) ; final frequency - Hz (setq initial-amp 0.8) ; initial ...

There is a "Soft Clipping Limiter" available as a plug-in http://forum.audacityteam.org/download/file.php?id=3956 This effect "squashes" peaks that are above the set threshold. If you are wanting to maximize the loudness of a recording it works well when applied after running the...

what is "AUDIO 1/0 It is the Audio I nput and O utput settings in the Preferences. "Preferences" can be found in the Edit menu. We are assuming that you are using the old 1.2.x version of Audacity because this is the Audacity 1.2.x part of the forum. If you're using Audacity 1.3.x th...

Audacity 1.2.x does not support multiple sample rates in the same track. There are workarounds but probably the best solution is to upgrade to Audacity 1.3.13. You don't need to uninstall Audacity 1.2 but see the restrictions in the last post by Koz.