Like that.
I did that by stacking up all the chapters and push them sideways with the Time Shift Tool (two sideways black arrows. But I think there’s a shortcut.
Koz
Dear Koz,
Thank you for the info on the wav. files. I think I’ll turn everything I’ve done into a WAV file TONIGHT. Now you’ve got me good and scared!!
Thanks for your idea on how to hear back the files. Do you know if there is a limit to how many minutes/hours of sound file we can have in a given project?
How’s the punch/copy punch/paste going for you?
Thanks!
You can have your Audacity Projects, too, but at minimum, you should have:
MyGreatNovel-Chapter1-Raw.wav
and…
MyGreatNovel-Chapter1-EditMaster.wav
There’s a restriction on filenames.
Upper case, lower case, numbers, -dash- and underscore. That’s it. Today is 2020-08-12. No slashmarks.
Since you’re on Windows, you have to also miss the legacy device names. COM, LPT, etc. COM is to help you connect your modem to your telephone line. You do that all the time, right?
Koz
how many minutes/hours of sound file we can have in a given project?
Projects used to be limited to 13 hours, but I think that limit is longer now.
An ACX book chapter is limited to 120 minutes. WAV files have a limit too and I forget right this second what it is…
Koz
WAV (Microsoft) 44100, 16-bit will store a mono (one blue wave) sound file out to about 12 hours.
4GB.
Koz
I’ve been playing around with the De-Clicker to fix this mouth noise in the middle of the word for the last 1/2 hour. I can’t figure out what settings will take care of this. Any ideas? Thanks for your help!
I don’t know. This isn’t my world. Someone else may post.
Koz
It’s actually multiple clicks which are very close (<2ms) to normal features …
so the Paul-L’s de-clicker tool will not be able to discriminate those clicks from normal parts of speech.
If you have to edit, (rather than do a retake),
Audacity’s spectral editing tools will be required, (a time-consuming task)
It’s analogous to dodging/burning in PhotoShop.
Hi Trebor,
I’m all for using the spectral tool! Time-consuming is ok. There’s a pandemic going on, what else am I going to do? I watched the video, but what I couldn’t figure out is what button you push to get the undesirable parts of the spectrogram to go away and leave only the desired parts. I only know how to cut out segments of time, not segments of frequencies…is that what the spectral tool does? BTW, I did try reading the manual, but I was lost at parametric EQ and spectral edit shelves… I’m really out of my depth here. Only shelves I know how to edit are the ones in my Ikea bookcase.
Thanks!
One way to do that is to type in the frequency-range of interest in spectrogram settings , (There is also vertical zooming, but than is off by default and has to be switched on in audacity preferences).
Spectral editing tool is like an very precise equalizer.
Drawing a rectangle on the spectrogram defines a frequency-range & a time-interval.
The sound in that rectangle can be attenuated or boosted with the spectral editing tools.
If you attenuate by -20,-30,-40dB the sound is removed.
I don’t think the Audacity manual is helpful to people who have never seen this type of tool.
it’s the kind of thing that needs a video to explain … https://youtu.be/pGku4-CJnzc?t=330
Hi Trebor,
Thank you for your explanation and the video. Definitely much better via video than the manual. And the guy explaining it in the video sounded like Data from Star Trek, which just added to my joy of it. THANK YOU!
I just sang out a spontaneous glorious AH imagining a chorus of angels rejoicing with me in my first EVER successful editing out a non-declicker-able sound from my recording at the spectrogram level!! Where has this been all my audio engineering life? I believe laurels are in order for those who climb to these heights of Audacity acumen. THANK YOU! 
That’s Paul Licameli of Paul-L’s DeEsser & DeClicker fame.