See Missing features - Audacity Support .
For more detailed information and usage tips, read the help file included in the ZIP package, or the help screens included in the plug-in.
Try increasing the “Gate Threshold” (so it has a smaller negative number). Try setting “Gate frequencies above” to 0. Set “Attack/decay” to 10.
If you need more help, post the audio somewhere. See: How to post an audio sample .
Gale
8 years later, another update.
This version has been fully updated, so it requires a fairly recent version of Audacity.
It has all of the features of the version on the wiki, and uses exactly the same gating engine, but in my tests it is about twice as fast, and hopefully will handle long tracks better (I’ve tested with over an hour of audio with no problems).
The one thing it hasn’t got is built-in help. This is because I’m hoping that it will be included in the next Audacity release, in which case the help button will link to the manual.
Please give it a good test, and leave feedback in this topic.
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I have been unnaturally successful at getting the previous version (2.2 ??) to work as a final pass at noise reducing a voice performance. Are the new action settings more or less similar going forward?
I used gentle Noise Reduction of the Beast (6, 6, 6) on a mastered performance which gets the noise values separated from the show enough so Noise Gate has good elbow room to do its thing, but not so stiff that it turns words into honky, bubbly trash. I used Gate at only 12dB reduction which avoids the “hissing words” pumping problem and between the two tools can turn a relatively noisy (and failing) voice performance into a clean, mastered chapter with -72dB noise floor.
Imagine my surprise. ACX apparently can’t tell what happened.
Always a plus.
You still can’t record in a boiler factory, but with a little head start, you don’t need the home studio you did before.
Koz
Identical.
Identical.
Everybody wins.
Koz
So long as the new version doesn’t have bugs. If you have time to play with it / test it, then please do, and let me know how it goes.
I’d be particularly interested to know if the performance improvement that I see on Linux is also on Windows / Mac.