Questions tagged [audacity]
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How do I change the playback speed without changing the tempo?
I have a recording in Audacity that I want to slow down for editing purposes only. When I'm finished editing and I go to export the file, the file should have the original tempo. Yes, I can go to ...
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Silence a small section of just one channel in a stereo recording (Audacity)
I need to erase (silence) about 2 seconds of just one channel of a 2-channel stereo recording. I can use Audacity (or Ardour). I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.
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How do I use Audacity to make two tracks match volume?
I have an Audacity project with two mono audio tracks. The first (on top) has been recorded at a high volume, and the second (on bottom) at a much lower volume.
Forgive me if I'm not using the right ...
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Audacity records only 1 channel, inspite of being set to stereo
I use a Shure condenser mic with a Focusrite scarlett solo interface. However ever since the 1st time I connected it to the laptop , & recorded in Audacity & mixpad, It keeps recording only 1 ...
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Export from garageband to audacity
I want to export ALL the audio tracks from garageband to audacity.
I searched on the internet and it is apparently not possible ( here for instance), or better it is possible but one track at time.
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Filter Reverb and Echo at the time of recording in Audacity or any other software
I am recording video lectures. The sound in those lectures must be clear from outside noises and also any echo/reverb. At my home I have only one room where the traffic sound and other sounds (barking ...
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Audacity causing unwanted artifacts for high frequency sounds
I tried generating two nearly inaudible tones in Audacity, with frequencies 16 kHz and 18 kHz. (With a sampling rate of 48 kHz, I also tried this at 44.1 kHz) Playing each in isolation results in a ...
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How to move/seek long forward/backward using shortcuts in Audacity?
I have Audacity 2.1 on Osx.
I want to move cursor forward/backward for one second with a single shortcut.
I found that there is a shortcut named "Long seek right during playback". It's default ...
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What does GarageBand have compared to Audacity?
Apple sells GarageBand for about $15/£10 currently. At this price point, what do I gain over something free like Audacity?
My use-case is recording myself singing and playing guitar for home use, or ...
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How to make a voice sound like it is underwater?
The goal is to alter the sound of voice so it sounds as the listener is underwater or in the womb.
I've got some experience with Audacity, so I'm most interested in how to do it using Audacity.
And ...
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Best quality encoding when exporting “8-bit 8kHz Mono WAV” sample in Audacity?
I would like to know if there is a difference in the quality of audio when choosing between 8-bit WAV formats in Audacity Export?
My Current method:
Change "Project Rate (Hz)" in the bottom left ...
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Mixing many audio files fast and easy
I have to mix audio data for a machine learning task.
The setting is the following:
I have two folders of tracks. One contains background files with background noise, the other contains files with a ...
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How do I find the common audio between mp3 audio tracks?
I have a folder of nearly identical .MP3s, but each with a different voiceover mixed in.
I'm trying to dump the tracks without the voiceovers.
I've tried aligning two of them to the nearest sample, ...
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Audacity: Increase audio volume in audacity software
How can I increase audio volume of a mp3 file in audacity?
I need to cut a part of mp3 song to make a ringtone. But as I save it in by mobile, the volume is too low for this particular file. Is there ...
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Extracting human vocals from really damaged audio?
My friend received an audio clip from a family member he is concerned about, but the clip is very low quality. He asked me to help clean it up, but I only have a little experience with digital audio. ...
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Format conversion safety of files linked from Audacity projects
If I record in WAV, create an Audacity project that links to those files, modify the project, export the final cuts, save everything, convert the WAV files to FLAC to save space, then convert the FLAC ...
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Batch processing: strip channel
I'm using Audacity to process some short audio clips - about 300 of them (!!!), so I'd really rather not repeat my steps manually for each one.
However, I can't seem to find a way to create a chain ...
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Audacity has all my audio, but blocks are repeated
I've just recorded about an hour of audio in Audacity. All the data appears to be there, but unfortunately it's all duplicated -- it seems that blocks of roughly three seconds are repeated, and the ...
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How do I move an audio clip to a different track within the same project?
I have a project that represents an album of songs, and what I'd like to do is move one song into another song's track so the first song plays after the second song. Unfortunately, the Webpages and ...
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How to use effect on part of the track without introducing the crack/pop sound?
I have a sound effect (bell ring) and I would like to increase the speed at which it decays:
The change I want is not linear though. I would only like to speed up the last two thirds of the sound's ...
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How to increase recorded audio quality using audacity?
My friend already recorded an hour speech a few weeks ago using his smartphone. But unfortunately, he put his smartphone was too far from the speaker, so the speaker voices in the recorded audio was ...
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Does amplification and De-amplification of a recording affect the quality?
I looked online and didn't find anything definitive, they all wanted to compare the source and changed data structures and listen for differences....which I would consider too subjective to yield any ...
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Cleaning/Fixing corrupted audio
I've got a weird issue. I have a several hour long dialogue recording I was editing, and there's an isolated section, about 15 minutes long (pretty close to the end, but not exactly there) that I've ...
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16 channel output under linux
I am a linux user and have recently purchased a Behringer XR-18 digital mixer that I want to record and play back on. I am using audacity to record and it works just fine so my Fedora Linux laptop ...
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Dynamic amplification of a sound file
I have a 60-minute WAV file of a conversation. Here is a 600kB clip from it:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m00d525v34bwbpa/needs-levelling.wav?dl=0
One voice is very quiet and I would like to amplify it....
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UR22MKII very low microphone level problem
I have a Steinberg UR22MKII and in the first input I have a condenser microphone, 48V phantom power is on. When I listen with headphones to the direct monitor, it sounds fine. When I listen with ...
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How can I mute quiet parts of audio in Audacity?
I recorded my voice. And it's a quite long record for manually silencing out my breaths and lips clicking. I would like to make silence on areas where the sound is lower than some level. How can it be ...
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Why didn't I get any signal with this setup?
I'm trying to understand something that happened today.
A friend called me to help him capture his band's rehearsal.
He had an analog Yamaha MG166 Cx, so no USB. And a Laptop with Windows 10. So, ...
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Quality issues recording with Audacity [closed]
I purchased an Audio Technica AT-LP60-USB turntable that came with Audacity software - version 2.0.3.
Here's the problem: When I record music off any of my old albums using the Audacity program and ...
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How can I improve this chain of filters to make a better voice with Audacity
I'm a true beginner in sound design, and use of softwares to edit sounds. However I started to make a chain of filters in Audacity (File > Edit Chains).
I'm recording podcasts with only my voice as a ...
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why is there a delay when recording my second track ? they dont align
I would like to figure out why my second tracks hold a delay from the first track instead of being completely aligned??
when i record shouldnt the singing be aligned with the music without me ...
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Audacity select multiple ranges at same time for deleting
I am editing a audio file where someone has given me start/stop times to cut out of the file. However once I cut one out the whole timeline shifts making the rest of the start/stop times incorrect. I ...
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Remove irritating low hum from recording
I just recorded with a shure mic & a focusrite amp. I recorded it in my vocal booth. But for some reason there is a very irritating low hum, during the recorded - listen to the recording here - ...
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Replicate a specific sound effect?
I am trying to replicate a radio sound effect, however, I have been struggling for a few hours and I wasn't able to do it just right.
I am trying to replicate the "all by myself" section of this ...
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How to remove Hitler's voice using audacity | Removing a certain typical sound in audacity
Watch this clip.
[clip removed from youtube since this was first asked.]
It has a sound of Hitler's speech in the background. I want to remove that, and just that. Is it possible to do that using ...
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5 loudest and 5 softest points in an audio file
Is there a way with Audacity (or any other software) to find and and mark the 5 loudest and 5 softest points in a movie audio file? It seems like this should be easy to do.
I know next to nothing ...
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Methods for decreasing exported .wav file size
I am working on sound project using Audacity.
Are there any methods for decreasing the exported .wav file size without damaging the sound quality? e.g. combining all track to a single one and then ...
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How to cancel out sound in an audio track?
Please point me to the right site if Sound Design is not the correct one.
I have been trying to hide a custom piece of audio within music so that it could not be heard, but will still show up when ...
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Insert / paste before cursor in Audacity?
Is there a way to insert / paste audio before the position of the cursor in Audacity?
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Decrease main volume and increase background noise [duplicate]
I have a song from a show. During the song there is a conversation between two characters and I was wondering is there anyway to cancel that out and make the actual music (background music) more ...
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Audacity, settings revert when opening exported wav
I looked through 3 past years of "Audacity" questions here and this hasn't come up.
I have a wav file encoded at a Rate of 22050 bps and a Sample Format of 32 bit float.
I do the following:
1) ...
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Audacity: How can I blend my vocals within the music?
I've been using Audacity for a few weeks but I can't figure out how to blend my vocals within the music. My voice is hard to hear when the music is playing, even when adjusting the volumes. Sometimes ...
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How do I save multiple selected tracks as separate files?
I have a bunch of tracks in an Audacity project, a few of which I would like to export. However, I want each track to reside in its own audio file.
Export Multiple will (as far as I can tell) split ...
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Differences in WAV files?
I'm trying to create audio files to be played by a very picky program. Creating a 32-bit float 22050Hz WAV file in Audacity seems to play fine. However, creating a 32-bit float 22050Hz WAV file with ...
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Use Audacity or other program to deepen voice for skype
I want to be able to deepen my voice for skype/video games, live, but am not sure how to do this. Can someone point me in the right direction?
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Need to remove noise from audio
Can anyone guide me on howto remove the fan noise from this audio.
Kinda stuck here.
Here's a link to the file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fzggrj5zmviwfpj/fan_noise%26Hiss_audio.mp3?dl=0
Thanks
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How does audacity play text
I thought that if importing raw data in audacity it had to be in hexi pairs. But it was pointed out to me elsewhere that actually audacity can import any text.
So what is audacity doing to the text ...
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How could I remove static/current noise while noise reduction is not useful
I got a 2hr long video which contains vocal and static/current noise.
The "noise reduction" will not only remove the noise but also the vocal.
How could I remove the noise only with Audacity?
The ...
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Audacity - moving the waveform graph up/down
I'm working in Audacity. What I need to do is to move the entire waveform graph up by a certain value. So for example all points with a value of 0 are supposed to become 10, every 10 is supposed to ...
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Templates for Audio Drama
I'm working on an audio skit with voices and sound effects. I'm really new at this, but I've got friends doing separate voice tracks (on their computers) and am tracking down sound-effects.
I'm using ...
