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Is the Mixer disabled as a recording device in the Windows Sound settings?

If you plug your headphones into the desk and change the pan on an input channel, can you hear it panning hard right / left through the headphones?

The unexpected effect to me is: the formerly space between the clips are now also clips with silence or what in it. This is a known limitation of Nyquist effects (and somewhere mentioned in the manual and release notes). Nyquist effects see empty space as "silence", and after processing, ...

shelleyfrost wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 23, 2020 10:21 pm

and the audio is suddenly terrible. There is a distinct crackling/hum.

Perhaps you are normalizing too loud, causing it to be distorted.
What level are you normalizing to?

Chains are now called "Macros", and they have gained a lot more commands: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/macros.html

I can't reproduce the problem. I've even looped it so that it runs many times, and it works as expected. SelNextClip: Amplify:Ratio="0.70794576" SelNextClip: SelNextClip: Amplify:Ratio="0.70794576" SelNextClip: SelNextClip: Amplify:Ratio="0.70794576" SelectAll: SelNextC...

It looks like something has got messed up in the configuration files. To reset Audacity: Quit Audacity. Open the hidden folder: Users\ <username> \AppData\Roaming\audacity\ Delete the three files: audacity.cfg pluginregistry.cfg pluginsettings.cfg Restart Audacity Audacity will restart with "fa...

What do you have listed in the Tools menu?

HATEAUDIO wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 23, 2020 1:56 pm

But the Spectral EQ option doesn't show in the Effects menu anymore

Have you disabled "Nyquist effects" in the Audacity Preferences? (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/eff ... ences.html)

When i drag n drop a Wav file should i have it in stereo or mono, A stereo file will be imported as a stereo track. A mono file will be imported as a mono track. You can leave it as whatever it imports as. Unless you have a specific reason to use a different sample rate, I would recommend 44100 as ...