equalisation problems

[jethroburns]

Sorry to bother you all again with my woes with the new version of Audacity.
Since I downloaded the new version is I have managed to adjust all the things that confused me thanks for your help.

Now I have come across a problem with the equaliser. When I first downloaded it I highlighted a guitar track, opened the equaliser and took everything down up to 100 hz to take off the boomy sound.
Today I started working on a completely new tune and when I went to the equalizer I found every thingup to 100 hz was cut off. I went to "manage" and set it to default and then found it to be the same. Does anyone know how I can return all the equalisation settings to zero please?

Anton

[kozikowski]

Effect > Equalization: Flatten > OK.

Audacity 2.2.1 has a preset called Low Rolloff for Speech. It's a pre-baked rumble filter for audiobook and other voice readings. It dives at 100Hz. You might just use that instead of making one up each time.

The preset is intended as a sister to the 100Hz cut filter available on many sound mixers. It also comes as a stand-alone add-on device.

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It's a popular eq curve.

Koz

[jethroburns]

Thanks for your prompt reply.

Actually I did click "Flatten" but I don't think it made any difference.
I don't mind making adjustments time and time again. For instance I would not need to get rid of the 100 k for a bass guitar, would I?

Anton

[DVDdoug]

I went to "manage" and set it to default and then found it to be the same.

The User Manual says:

Defaults Restore the list to the default setting. Warning: you will lose any custom presets you have created.

[jethroburns]

Yes but it did not restore the default setting. It gave me graph with all the 100 K filtered out!

[jethroburns]

My apologies. I tried the "flatten" suggestion again, and it did the trick. I don't know if it will still be cut off up to 100 k when I open it again but I suppose it does not matter as long as I can turn it back to default with the flatten button!

Thanks again.

Anton

[kozikowski]

if it will still be cut off up to 100 k

Are you really complaining about sound above 100KHz? 100,000 Hz?

Rumble filters work around 100Hz. That's thunder, earthquakes and heavy trucks going by.

And wind noise on field recordings.

Koz

[jethroburns]

I'm not really complaining. In the older version of Audacity the equaliser was consistently flat when I opened it. When I open it now all the buttons up to 100 k are consistently down at the bottom cutting of anything up to 100 k. I know click "Flatten" as advised to and everything turns to normal. Is this a new feature in Audacity that everything up to 100 k is consistenly filtered out?

Anton

[kozikowski]

That would make yours broken.

Last few Audacity versions kept the last known working equalizer curve until changed. I've been using the same curve for a month without touching any of the buttons except OK.

Quite a number of the tools work this way. Effect > Limiter and all its settings arrives the same way each time I use it.

So this could be a heavy system problem, like your virus protection is preventing Audacity from updating a setting or preference.

Just for form, when was the last time you did a heavy shutdown and restart. Shift-Shutdown > Wait > Start.

We may need to wait for one of the Windows elves.

Koz

[jethroburns]

Thanks for responding to my post. Sorry for being late getting back but you are on the other side of the world. And I was out most of today.

Just for form, when was the last time you did a heavy shutdown and restart. Shift-Shutdown > Wait > Start. = I am not sure what you mean. Shut down the whole computer or just Audacity? Shift key I know but what is Shutdown - Wait - Start

Does it matter if I leave Audacity "unflattened" or should I reinstall the whole thing again?

Anton