Audacity Forum

... the various clicks and pops from bumping the microphone, etc. I'll give Chris's compressor a shot. FWIW - it appears that several people have had exactly the same problem ...

... as these are commonly used as control signals in effects. For example, Chris's dynamic compressor generates an extremely low frequency waveform (may be a tiny fraction of 1Hz) that ...

... and right and Normalize changes each side independently. You could try Chris's Compressor... Chris's Compressor http://pdf23ds.net/software/dynamic-compressor/ That one changes ...

... apply the Amplify effect to bring the peak level up to 0dB. I would use Chris's dynamic compressor ( http://pdf23ds.net/software/dynamic-compressor/ ) rather than the default Audacity ...

... would Effect > Normalize > Remove DC (only) for each track. Then apply Chris's Compressor to each track. http://pdf23ds.net/software/dynamic-compressor/ Then Edit/Cut/Paste ...

... able to polish it up just a little bit by running the final WAV through Chris's Compressor. http://pdf23ds.net/software/dynamic-compressor/ If you change the compression value ...

... correction is a faint shadow of what you can do by capturing a profile. Chris's Compressor will level out variations in volume and I use it all the time on perfectly recorded ...

Version 1.2.3 is out!

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Yep, I read it on Metablog. Actually I was the one who asked him about this... It may have something to do with the track's length; the one that made Audacity crash in my case was 6:24, which I assume makes it "large-ish" as Chris said. :D I'm sure he'll find a fix soon, but he was kind enough to re...

I've tested 1.2.2 quite a lot without it crashing, but using Audacity 1.3.9 and 1.3.10 (both have the new version of Nyquist) and I've only tested on relatively short tracks. Chris has been able to reproduce the issue when compressing a "long'ish" track, so will hopefully have a fix for this new pro...