Audacity Forum

how can it flattop before 1.0? bug in the linear display ?? dB view would be more useful IMHO - magnify the top part to really see what is happening wrt clipping. I agree db view would be a nice _option_. The clipping occurred before in Audac - I lowered the amplitude so it wouldn't be so loud; and...

The floorfish results are about the best you're likely to get. I've had a go using a different method, and restricting the effects to those included in Audacity. The method here was to generate a bit of pink noise, and deliberately clip it severely. This could be done by amplifying it with the "all...

Yep that’s overload distortion. Not a lot that can be done. I’ve butchered the spectrum, (have a look at the before and after frequency analyses to see what frequencies I’ve amputated), and applied “ Floorfish ” (free) expander at different frequencies … Woodhand's distorted opera singer, Before-Af...

If the peaks are clipped flat, (rather than just a bit squashed), then yes an expander is no use " it can't convert a plateau into a peak". If they are clipped absolutely flat then clipfix is your only hope: it estimates what the clipped peak should have looked like by interpolation. Understood. NB...

An expander performs the opposite function [to a compressor], increasing the dynamic range of the audio signal. You can attach afew seconds of mp3 of a distorted bit to your next post, [file size less than 1Mb]. Thanks to all for your advice - especially to keep some headroom. (If 24db is too much ...

Hi, I'm new here. Am a 50's some audio amateur, need some help. I recorded a lovely chorus+piano concert this weekend on my Oly DM-520. Having previously used mp3 and auto, this time I wanted better quality - so used PCM settings, manual audio, internal mike, did a sound check, etc. . But after list...