Questions tagged [audacity]
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How can I eliminate sounds below a certain threshold?
Using Audacity, I can highlight a section of an audio file, select Effects > Noise Reduction > Get Noise Profile, then Select All, and then again Effects > Noise Reduction, and this time "OK" to ...
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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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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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How do you sync two tracks of similar audio?
I shot a piece of video where someone was moving in rhythm with music. The audio is pretty terrible so I want to replace it with the actual song, since there is nothing else interesting to hear there ...
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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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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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Emphasize background conversation in Audacity
I have an audio file of a man talking and some conversation taking place in the background. I need to remove the main voice and emphasize the background conversation.
Someone can help me?
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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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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 you shift a selection in Audacity?
When you've selected a slice of track in Audacity, how do you shift the selection window without shifting the content?
I'm trying to preview the playback of specific slices of audio in exact lengths, ...
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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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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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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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Different recording speed using different models of voice recorders?
I am using four voice recorders to record the audio of a group interview. Three of them are Sony IC Recorder ICD-PX440 (stereo) and one is a Phillips Voice Tracker (mono). I synced the four tracks in ...
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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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How to make all sound be at approximately the same level?
I tried to use normalize (in Audacity and in ffmpeg), but it seems there is still room for improvement. Is it possible to do something better than normalize?
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Faking depth and stereo separation?
I recently ripped a live performance of a song which I really liked.
I was converting the ripped song to an appropriate format, intending to title it and plaster a alternate cover art on it when I ...
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What is the best WAV encoding and why?
I'm using Audacity to export a track, and there are just too many options to encode a .wav export:
Signed 16/24/32-bit PCM
Unsigned 8-bit PCM
32/64-bit float
U-Law, A-Law
IMA ADPCM, Microsoft ADPCM
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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 can I match/adjust two clips together with a smooth transition?
Currently I'm trying to replace the last refrain of a song with the first one (in the last one I didn't like their screams which weren't contained in the first one). Of course the transition between ...
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Normalize waveform level in Audacity
I´m in the process of digitizing a tape which features 90's dance tracks recorded from FM, but the problem is that some idiot (me at age 12) used to change the recording volume constantly between ...
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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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How do I mark points in Audacity?
I have a long recording which I want to mark all the sound motifs for later reference.
How do I mark points while playing back so that I can jump between them (or find them easily) later?
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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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Audacity aac export vs ffmpeg
Apologies if this is off topic here.
I have dozens of small audio files recorded using iOS VoiceMemo. These files fail to load properly in a web-based experiment that I am trying to run.
When I open ...
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Make do with safety channel feature
I bought a mic that gives me original audio on the left channel, and -10db on the right channel (safety).
After recording my last session, it turns out that I do indeed have clipping happening on the ...
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