Audacity Forum

If the noise level is particularly high, you will not be able to get a smooth transition. The noise removal effect is for removing low level, constant, background noise, such as tape hiss, or low level background hum. There are a number of techniques that may help, such as using the Equalization eff...

Your topic title is not very helpful, also you have not said which version of Audacity you are using, what platform you are on, or what steps you took to set the record timer.

My voice, recorded with Audacity, has sharp sss sounds which I would like to de-ess. The important question here is "why does it have sharp sss sounds"? It is much better to start with a good recording than to try and correct a bad one. Trying to correct a poor recording will often take a...

I'm not so much a hijacker as a thread reviver. The one prior to mine ended over a year ago with no peace and I asked if there had been any conclusion. I don't think koz was specifically criticising you bfuhr, but it does get confusing when there are several enquiries in the same thread. In this ca...

rewdn wrote:... so why wouldn't it already have the information.

That's what I was saying - it looks like Audacity does already have the information, and can therefore normalise in a single pass.

All 1.3.x versions are beta. The latest is 1.3.4, but most Linux repo's (including Ubuntu) have got 1.3.3 for some reason (but I got 1.3.4 from the Ubuntu Gutsy back-port). Although it is still classed as beta, most people find 1.3.4 to be stable and (almost) bug free. The only problem that I've had...

I'm a bit confused - what are you wanting as your final recording, just the the vocal, or the vocal and the backing track?

I'd not say that the recording is bad, but it could be improved, so my comments here are made in the spirit of helping you to get better results and more satisfaction from your recording. There's a few things that I notice straight away: In the introduction at the beginning you've got a LOT of low b...

I have audacity in Dutch, so I will need the manual in dutch. I can't really help you there - I guess you've found this page : http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Dutch_Information How good are you at translating? - I'm sure the Audacity developers would be happy to have someone help with ...

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There's some excellent tutorials available that may help:
http://audacityteam.org/help/tutorials