Whenever I edit or apply an effect the volume is being automatically reduced.
it seems to be enveloping the sound without me having the envelope tool activated…THEN when I activate the envelope tool it shows what it has done…
Here is an example in the picture. It is only doing this in one of my audacity projects which suggests to me that I have unknowingly changed a setting in this audacity window that is making this happen.
Here is a picture showing what it does with every edit…
That sounds like Window’s doing “loudness equalization”.
It’s an audio playback enhancement which should be off if you want fidelity …
no I dont mean the speaker volume is reduced its in the picture where the volume was reduced in the wave forms can you see it?
Ill repost the picture showing where the waves are shorter vertically with the different grey like the envelope tool does
Whenever I edit or apply an effect
What kind of effects/editing?
My guess is that you are referring to “Nyquist Effects” (those below the divider line in the Effect menu).
Nyquist plug-ins don’t yet support envelopes. When you apply a Nyquist effect to a track that has envelopes, the envelope is lost (it disappears).
My guess as to what has happened:
I think what is happening in your case is that you have an envelope that is set very high (as indicated by the dashed blue line at the top and bottom of the track). The section at about 26 to 27 seconds is where you applied a Nyquist effect, and the envelope has been removed from that section, so it now has the default envelope level of 1x gain. Relative to the rest of the track, that’s a lower level, so it gives the appearance of reducing the level - it’s not actually “reducing” the level, but it is “not increasing” the level (the rest of the track IS “increasing the level”.
The workaround is to “fix” (apply) the envelope before applying Nyquist effects by “rendering” the track (mixing it down). Note that rendering the track is permanent (it can be “undone” with “Effect > Undo” or “Ctrl + Z”, but it no longer has the adjustable envelope control points). It is therefore essential that you are happy with the envelope before rendering it. To render the track, select the track (or part of the track), then “Tracks menu > Mix > Mix and Render”.
The effects were things such as change tempo…it reduced the volume by over half
From the Audacity bug tracker:
- The following effects ‘’‘remove envelope control points’‘’:
- Change Speed/Pitch/Tempo; Equalization; Noise Removal; Sliding Time Scale/Pitch Shift; any Nyquist effect in the Effect menu.
- The Reverse effect retains the control points, but does not move (reverse) them.
got this from log it happens when i do the tempo change
12:39:20: Attempting to load LAME from system search paths
12:39:20: Loading LAME from lame_enc.dll
12:39:20: Actual LAME path C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\Plug-Ins\lame_enc.dll
12:39:20: Error: Couldn’t find symbol ‘lame_set_VBR_min_bitrate_kbps’ in a dynamic library (error 127: the specified procedure could not be found.)
12:39:20: Error: Couldn’t find symbol ‘lame_set_preset’ in a dynamic library (error 127: the specified procedure could not be found.)
12:39:20: Error: Couldn’t find symbol ‘lame_set_disable_reservoir’ in a dynamic library (error 127: the specified procedure could not be found.)
12:39:20: Error: Couldn’t find symbol ‘lame_set_padding_type’ in a dynamic library (error 127: the specified procedure could not be found.)
12:39:20: Failed to find a required symbol in the LAME library.
12:39:20: Attempting to load LAME from builtin path
12:39:20: LAME registry key exists.
12:39:20: Library path is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Lame For Audacity
12:39:20: Loading LAME from C:\Program Files (x86)\Lame For Audacity\lame_enc.dll
12:39:20: Actual LAME path C:\Program Files (x86)\Lame For Audacity\lame_enc.dll
12:39:20: LAME library successfully loaded
That’s not relevant to the issue. That’s Audacity, on launch, looking for, and finding the LAME MP3 encoding library.
In more detail:
Audacity looks for LAME at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\Plug-Ins\lame_enc.dll
There is no compatible version of LAME there, so Audacity looks at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Lame For Audacity\lame_enc.dll
It’s there, and Audacity loads it. Success.
Wow thank you so much Steve it worked! Thank you thank you thank you!!!
