Levelator only claims to even out volume variations much like Chris’s Compressor. Neither of them affects equalization, sibilance, essing or room echoes.
I found many of these universal fixit tools are designed to improve your studio recording, not make a studio recording from something that isn’t. I use Chris periodically on the podcast version of a radio show. It’s studio shot, but the podcast is missing broadcast compressors and is almost unlistenable because of the volume changes. Chris evens them out. We found Chris settings that almost exactly duplicate the local radio station.
So that’s another possibility. Chris hates processing a blank beginning, so I leave commercial fragment attached until I’m done, and then go back and sheer it off.
https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/chriss-dynamic-compressor-plugin-for-audacity/
Both of these tools will make a show sound funny if there is high background noise. Instead of being steady, the noise will breathe or pump with the performance.
Koz
Gale, I downloaded it from a recommended free web site. It isn’t an Audacity apllication, I think it is just used in addition to Audacity.
Thank you, Koz. I understand and have found that the difference is slight and in fact Audacity is actually more comprehensive. I’ve started recording with a -3.0dB recording level. The sound through the headphones is OK but through the Grove Music pre-installed on my laptop it is almost inaudible unless the sound level is increased to 100%. I am just assuming the problem is with Grove Music and not my Audacity MP3 audio file.
I’m sorry. I’m just lost. Are we talking about this Grove Music?
http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/public/book/omo_gmo
If not. Can you point to a web page?
Koz
It was already installed on my laptop and it looks as though it is a Windows 10 application. The application appears on the web as follows:-
Music Player, Online Radio, & More from Groove Music Service
www.microsoft.com/en-us/groove
Groove Music. Not Grove Music.
Koz
How in beginners language,please, do you use ‘Snap-to’ when editing in order to return to a start point instead of going through the whole file again ?
You don’t - that is not what it’s for.
Have you tried Labels?
If you are playing audio, SPACE and SPACE starts playback from where you started.
Gale
Please help. The centre line running through words has suddenly become thick (1/8 or 1/4") don’t know what I have done. How can I get back to the normal thin line. All my files now open with this thick centre line, most visible when I have used Cntrl. F
Press F1 on your keyboard to go back to Selection Tool.
Gale
I’m locking this topic now because it is becoming an unfocused series of new and different questions which won’t help users searching for answers. Sally’s new topic about clicks when pasting is at https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/clicks-when-pasting/44583/1
Just press NEW TOPIC top left of http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewforum.php?f=64 whenever you want to ask a new and different question.
Gale