Audacity Forum

Thanks, that rules out a lot of possibilities. Only the microphones are enabled in the recording section of the sound cards mixer application. What happens if you change it to recording from a different input, for example the CD or the Line input? I presume that you are using headphones to monitor w...

I will say this: another problem I was having (where the playback kept getting all "jerky" and computery-sounding) was helped by using the "mix and render" feature to combine three tracks together. When playback starts to get "all jerky" it means that your system is ge...

Is there some kind of global (i.e. one for the whole machine, not just one for this user) setting file or directory that is preserved even if Audacity is uninstalled? No, the settings are all in the (per user) audacity.cfg file. If you have reinstalled and nuked the audacity.cfg file, then Audacity...

Odd thing I noticed is the envelope of the “after” waveform looks slightly different from the "before" … That's because of the "Gate Frequencies Above" setting. You will always get that type of effect occurring when using frequency filters - perhaps it needs rewording to indicat...

Update - Setting the Attack/Decay to 10 ms is probably better, provided that the noise threshold has been set correctly.

Maybe a note why this is better than the built-in Noise Removal for this scenario would be useful to some? I presume it's because Noise Removal will produce artifacts, Yes it does. Noise Removal can reduce the dither noise by about 30 dB, which is just enough to push shaped noise below the bottom b...

Which version of Audacity?
Which Windows?
Has it ever worked?

bgravato wrote: It's actually ~/.audacity-data (or /home/your-username/.audacity-data)

Oops - typo
Thanks bg.

The problem is due to a limitation in Windows that prevents setting up an association if there is a second program with the same file name (audacity.exe) You may be able to get round it with this tool: http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/ContextEdit-Download-78704.html Alternatively, change the na...

Audacity 1.3.12

File menu > Import Raw
Use these settings:

Signed 8 bit PCM
No endianness
1 channel mono
0
100
8000