I downloaded the Nyquist Noise Gate and used it on the previous episode of my podcast successfully. Today I got the next episode ready for editing and the Noise Gate isn’t working at all. Half the time it takes like 3 minutes and then nothing has changed, half the time it takes like 3 minutes and then tells me it can’t find a file on “C:”
I tried re-downloading it and still nothing. Any ideas?
That’s the name of your main drive. What did you use as a filename? It’s a bad idea to use punctuation marks in filenames. Today is 2018-03-21, not 3/21/18.
I I know what C: is, I put the quotation marks because I’ve had it autocorrect to an emoji before if I don’t. I don’t use punctuation in the filenames either.
If the gate threshold is set too low then the gate won’t change anything.
Viewing the waveform with dB scale makes it easier to see the noise level …
In this case the default gate threshold of -48dB is too low, use -44dB instead.
To avoid that, use the “Code” tag button (in the set of buttons above the message composing box). The “code” tags present literal characters (and preserve spaces):
Audacity failed to read a file from C:.
I don’t recognise that as an Audacity error, and “C:.” is not a valid file location.
Perhaps you could post a screenshot of the error dialog (including the complete dialog window).
I don’t think the problem has anything to do with “Noise Gate”.
Try applying the “Amplify” effect to the track - do you get the same error?
If no error with “Amplify”, try the “Low Pass Filter” effect.