Audacity Forum

My version of Audacity came with the product - the cassette recorder from the supplier. That version is probably too old for Catalina. Uninstall it (drag the entire application to the recycle bin). Then get Audacity 2.3.3 via the links on the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/...

My choices are "default", "pulse" or "HDA Intel PCH: ALC3220 Analog (hw: 1,0)" Is there no "(hw: 0,0)" option? If you shut down all audio applications, then kill the KDE mixer, then run: pulseaudio -k and then start Audacity, do you get a "(hw: 0,0)"...

If you use Jack Audio System, you can route the signals to get both your mic and the voice of the other person. I've just tested this, but unfortunately Skype is too buggy and fails to work with either Jack or "pulseaudio-module-jack". It IS possible to record Skype with Audacity on Linux...

Your first image is not quite right. The orange region should be outside of the yellow region. The technical terms for your suggested enhancement are: Lookahead (padding before the sound) Hold (padding after the sound) The Nyquist Noise Gate plug-in does use lookahead, but for simplicity of use, it ...

A handy tip:
The big picture of Audacity on the front page of the manual can be clicked on to take you to the relevant section of the manual.

Technetium wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 23, 2020 8:21 am

Audio of a Video Conference

If you have the choice, try video conferencing software that uses Opus (for example "Jitsi"). Opus format is exceptionally good at preserving audio quality at low bit rates.

Are the "shows" audio files, or Audacity Projects?

The Noise Gate has an "Attack / Decay" feature which is similar.

I am not able to reproduce the problem. If you can give exact steps to reproduce the problem, then I'll try again to reproduce the issue.

"Strip Silence" is not a noise gate. It is more like Audacity's "Truncate Silence" effect: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tru ... lence.html