Questions tagged [audacity]
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Adobe Audition / Audacity: If I sum all the bins of a FFT (rectangular window), do I always get RMS Amplitude?
First I use Audacity to perform an FFT of an audio clip with a rectangular window. Then I sum all the FFT bin values. Since the FFT bins are expressed in dB, I perform the "decibel sum" like this:
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How to get a clean audio where one voice has overlapped in a conversation recording?
I am using Adobe Audition and Audacity to clean an audio recording of an interview recorded using OBS Desktop. The problem is that the interviewee's audio is distorted. I hear overlapping in the ...
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Audacity Recorded Commentary Is Out Of Sync With My Webcam And Gameplay Recordings
so basically my commentary that i recorded for a game play video is out of sync with my webcam footage and my gameplay footage
Webcam: Logitech C922 Pro Stream Webcam
My Microphone: Stadium USBMIC1 (...
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Why did Audacity suddenly muffle many of my sounds, and is there a way of restoring previous versions of a project?
I'm a newb (Clearly, I'm still using Audacity). I'm just getting into EDM and music making and the like, and my first project that I've been working on for some months now took a weird turn today. I ...
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ESI Juli@ - 2 channels in control panel, but Audacity recording only 1
So I am trying to capture audio from my Marantz PM5004, everything is plugged in just fine and ESI Juli@ is detecting the audio playing from both L and R channels, but when I try to record it using ...
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How to remove the robotic sound from an (almost) isolated vocals
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I have look all around for tutorials about isolating the vocals from a song.
There is good material and i have tried several of them.
I obtained the best outcome by combining two ...
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Audacity Recording volume too low
I've been using an AT2020 USB directly into my 2015 macbook Pro retina and recording in Audacity. I recently wanted to upgrade to a nicer mic. Every mic I try, the volume is super low. Increasing the ...
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Remove one vocal from a conversation
I have two audio tracks, Audio1 and Audio2.
Audio1 has voice of Host
and Audio2 contains the voice of Guest plus the voice of the host(same as Audio1)
Now, is there anyway to utilize Audio1 to omit ...
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Vestax mixer to Audacity - only hearing one turntable
I have a Vestax PMC25 mixer going to an isolator with 2 Technic 1200s. I'm trying to record onto a Mac using Audacity recording software. I can only get 1 turntable to record. The only output working ...
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Not able to remove noise after recording from headphone output to microphone input
With an audio cable, I have recorded my piano on a computer. One end is in the headphone output of my piano and the other end is in the microphone input of my computer.
Now I am trying to make the ...
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How can I export an Audacity file for a Five9 phone system?
I'm trying to streamline our menu recording workflow, because right now we have to send off every audio file to be converted by our Five9 support rep. The issue is I can't figure out how to get ...
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Combine audio files with silence gap between each file (What's best software to do it on bulk)
How to merge audio files audacity with 0.8 seconds of silence between each clip like automatic way?
It's many tracks, and usually, I was able to align them by "Select All> Tracks> Align ...
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Analysing long audio files
I have a 9 hour audio recording. I need to search through it for occasional short (5 second) low frequency bangs/explosion sounds. I have audition/audacity. What's the best way to do this, ...
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Automate pre-processing of sound (noise reduction, compressor, limiter)
I use Audacity to pre-process sound before mixing the takes. I have found good settings for the relevant effects (noise reduction at 24 dB, compressor at 6:1, soft limiter at -10 dB) and the rest is ...
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How can I reduce noise on vocal track using Audacity
I extracted vocal-only from a song using AI online service and this is the result.
Speechless Vocal Only
As you can see, there is still noise in this track especially on the lyrics "Whenever they try"....
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Start recording with delay and stop early
I'm new to audacity (and recording) and mostly love it. But there is one problem I face when I record myself reading. I tend to make pauses quite often, so I interrupt the recording with space and ...
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How to replicate specific sound effect
so I would like to know how to replicate this specific sound effect that plays in this video. I would like to note that I am attempting to use Audacity to replicate said sound effect. The sound effect ...
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Macro to automatically record event (Audacity or alternative)
I am currently using Audacity to record (gasp) church meetings, but this question could apply to any other event or concert that occurs on a recurring schedule. I love the timer record option under ...
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Can I change pronunciation in Audacity?
I made 4 different character voices for my animation, only by manipulating my casual voice in Audacity, with RoVee plgin / effect, by changing the formant and the pitch of my voice in 4 different ways....
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Why does my voice over sound like it's been reduced in quality when I Compress it?
I'm recording audio for a video essay with Audacity and a Blue Yeti microphone. The microphone is held by a stand and it's got a pop filter.
I've watched a few YouTube tutorials like this one on ...
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Logically ANDing two tracks together
I have two audio tracks, X and Y, which are similar, but both have things added to them.
I want to take X and Y, and produce a new track Z with only the lower value of every frequency of each track ...
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Windows tool to extract the tonal centre of an audio track
Essentially I want to accurately measure the key that a piece of a cappella music is performed in, to analyze the portions of the piece that are responsible for the tonal centre dropping.
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What frequency / quality for voice clips?
I am looking at making some voice clips for teaching languages. I am using Audacity, but am not sure what settings to use. Many people recommend 44,100Hz for regular music recordings. Is this also the ...
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audacity noise removal without using noise-only portion of the song
I cannot use the noise reduction tool built in audacity because it needs a portion of the song where there is only noise. In the songs I have (old tango recordings), there is no empty part before or ...
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Weird popping artifacts in audacity
When I record two separate tracks, they have a little weird anchor looking symbol that I cannot remove no matter what point in the audio I delete it. It "pops" at that point. When I pan the tracks in ...
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How can I remove short bursts noises in a recording?
I try to clean a recording of a lecture that has noises of turning of pages or a chair squeaking. I want to get rid of (completely silence) any sound shorter than 100ms exceeding a general silence of -...
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Is it possible to manipulate a character voice back to the original recording?
I have to create 3 original character voices, for my animation.
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If I just record my casual voice, and manipulate it in three different ways with Audacity, would it be possible for someone ...
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Creating different yet genuine human-sounding voices in Audacity. Is it Possible?
I would like to create a few voice characters for an animation in Audacity, editing recordings of my own voice, however the final voices should sound completely different than my voice, and yet like ...
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I cant remove "hiss" sound on my Audacity track
To briefly explain my problem, when I play the audio track on Audacity and any media player on my PC, it sounds absolutely perfect. When I try on my phone's media player, it also sounds perfect. But ...
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Distorted sound and echo while recording with Audacity and loopback in ubuntu
I want to do a recording of radio news with background music which fades in and fades out while I am reading. I don't have proper device, so I decide to enable loopback mode, so that I can record ...
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