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edgar-rft wrote: I can't even test with CMU Nyquist, because Nyquist 3.05 refuses to compile on 64-bit machines

How about the Debian repository version? Does that work on your 64-bit machine?

For the big noises that are on one channel only you could copy audio from the other channel and paste it over the damaged channel. Have a look at "Plot Spectrum" (Analyze menu) and compare the two files. You could use the Equalization effect (Effect menu) to reduce that large peak, cut the...

Okay, I have like three more hours to learn this. Could anyone please look at those files and write me step-by-step instructions!
Thank you, once again, in advance.

The Audacity Nyquist FFT functions seem to be seriously broken, with Audacity_2.0.1 on 64-bit Debian Linux I get complete nonsensical values: fft-test : (SEND FFT-ITER :NEXT) = #(4.58592e-37 -1.77112e-37 6.30807e-35 -3.20121e-37 -1.17014e-34 4.19982e-37 1.53482e-34 1.30349e-41 -1.66395e-34 -4.19788e...

... in the project folder, so it should be possible to predict at least the maximum sample value in an Audacity selection, but we would need the help of the Audacity developers for finding a way how to compute this value. Before I start to nerd the people in the Audacity developers list I would ...

... Audacity ® 2.0.0 (Unicode) from source, the executable runs successfully from the build directory, but there is no sound output. In the "help->audio device info" there are no devices listed, Default capture device number: -1 Default playback device number: -1 No devices found In ...

Thanks. This going to help me to large extent.

... to play nice...) want to be able to add effects to individual tracks without affecting all tracks. using ZOOM thingy between guitar and link. any help would be awesome. got this far because of the forum and trying to build DAW on the cheap!! many thanks.

There's a lot of things that can cause intermittent loss of signal (which may produce gaps, or in your case bursts of noise). There's some things listed here that may help: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Troub ... ings#Skips

wildbluesage wrote:plugged the aux input into computer for external load

What does that mean?

wildbluesage wrote:have tried all combinations of the four drop boxes in the middle of audacity 2.0 display

I can't see your computer. What are those options - what do they say?