Labeled audio - Split

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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So I use Audacity to record my voice for my commentaries on my youtube videos. All I do is press record and stop to end it when I’m done, then I use noise removal to remove the background static/hum from my mic. I use ALT + I (capital i) to start recording with Mirillis Action!, my game recording program. I recently changed it to that because I had some issues with my previous hotkey so i decided to change it to that thinking it couldn’t possibly be a bind for anything in my games or on windows. Well in Audacity it is and it’s for this Labeled Audio - Split, not sure what it technically does, I searched it up after finding the bind in the preferences and wnated to make sure it didn’t really alter my audio. As far as I can tell it lowered the volume, by a lot, so all I’ve done so far is amplify the audio and remove the static and it sounds just like normal.

Could anything have happened to my audio that I would have to trash it for or is it fine since I amplified it and removed the static? The reason is is because I just got finished recording a good 45 minutes of a game and don’t want to have to redo it as I’ve had to in the past for other reasons. Will my audio be fine?

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Assuming you did not change Audacity’s default shortcuts, ALT + I (for “eye”) won’t do anything unless you have selected over a label in a Label Track. The command puts a vertical “Split line” in the waveform at the label positions, which makes the audio into separate clips.


Gale

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I figred out the problem. It’s not audacity. In Mirillis action there is an option to record your mic, and it’s disabled, but it also has a volume slider and apparently it was on 0 which changed my mic volume in WINDOWS sound… Well, I fixed it and didn’t even realize what I had done to cause the problem in the first place.