Audacity Forum

I certainly hope this is a trivial question, but when I apply an effect to a single track it effects the subsequent tracks. For instance, I have a sound clip of crickets chirping which I slowed down. I then copied a sound clip of voices to another track and that clip is slowed down when it gets pasted. How do I make Audacity only effect the track to which the effect was applied? (That's a lot of 'effects')

Thanks for your time.

Capt Ike wrote:For instance, I have a sound clip of crickets chirping which I slowed down.

How did you do that? Please give a step-by-step of what you did to slow the track down.

I had the sound clip opened and I selected the whole clip (with the mouse) and the went to Effect>Change Speed and selected a different speed. Then when I add a new track (for another sound clip), that new track is also slowed down. It won't play at it's original speed. I think that I've worked around it however. If I create a new project and then go to Project>Import Audio, I can manipulate them individually and that seems to work... Is this how it's supposed to work or am I missing something? Thanks for your help.

No that's not how it's supposed to work, and both you and I are missing something. I don't know what you are doing wrong, but there is something not quite right.