Audacity Forum

atsdroid wrote:That was perfect!

It was a bit of a hack really, but since you brought this up, I can think of a couple of other cases where gating to silence would be useful, so I'm updating the Noise Gate to add that as a feature.

whomper wrote:there are 5 helpful links at the bottom which are easy to miss

At the bottom of what?

The plug-ins folder is usually in /usr/share/audacity/plug-ins if Audacity was installed from a repository package,
or /usr/local/share/audacity/plug-ins if you compiled Audacity from our source code.

I presume that you mean that you want to export an MP3 file with a bit-rate of 128kbps. To export MP3's you need to have Lame installed: http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=install&item=lame-mp3 To set the MP3 bit rate (Audacity 1.2) go to "Edit menu > Preferences > File Formats". (the ...

I agree it would be more normal for links to be underlined, so I have now made them so. Depends if other people like it, too. I'm +1 for the links in the header to be underlined. I'm not quite so sure about the link to "Tips". We considered a troubleshooting page or category on the Wiki b...

*How did you derive the different lines? Only drawn by hand? Yes, drawn by hand. *What do you have on the y axis? The y axis is a linear scale +/- 1.0 (the default "waveform" view). If you want the read-out in dB, click on the track name and select "Waveform dB". The relationshi...

atsdroid wrote: Does anyone (the author himself?) know how the "Noise Gate" plugin might be modified to accomplish this?

I think if you change line 166 to this should do it:

When we get further on with this, I'm going to kill the dining room table idea. If using a conventional microphone, I'll be agreeing with you, though I've heard some excellent voice recordings made using a PZM placed flat on the centre of a table. Admittedly it was a rather expensive PZM microphone...

A good option in that price range is a digital Dictaphone with a Conference Record setting. Probably something just like your Olympus. :roll: Other than that, it would be nice to get a microphone on each performer and use a mixer, but that's going to be tough at this price point. Does your Olympus h...

min="0.001526" max="0.005859" rms="0.003748"/> </recordingrecover</project> I can see at least one error there. The Audacity AUP files are written in XML format. This format uses pairs of "tags" to separate different bits of text. Tags are always used in pair...