The De-Clicker and De-Esser plug-ins are popular with some audiobook authors. The purpose of the De-Clicker is to remove mouth clicks and similar clicky sounds from the recording, while De-Esser is for reducing excessive sibilance (hissy “s” and “shh” sounds). These plug-ins have horrible code and are only available on the understanding that there is … Continue reading De-Clicker and De-Esser
One thing that is quickly learned about Audacity, is that it is NOT a DAW* (digital audio workstation), and is NOT a wave editor. It is a full featured multi-track audio recorder and editor. When “opening” an audio file for editing, the file itself is never modified by Audacity – the audio data is copied … Continue reading Editing and Overwriting an Audio File
A simple “tuning fork” plug-in for Audacity, specifically for tuning a ukulele. This plug-in just generates a tone of the specified note, which is basically what a tuning fork does, except that a real (mechanical) tuning fork is restricted to just one frequency, whereas this plug-in allows you to select the required note. Ukuleles are … Continue reading Ukulele Tuning Tones
What is a decibel? Why are dB sometimes negative? How loud is one dB? In this article we examine what dB means in layman’s terms…
Sometimes we may want to be able to quickly find extreme peaks in a recording so that we can treat them in some way. Often we can find the peaks easily by just looking at the waveform. In the example below, we can clearly see that there is a large peak in the left channel … Continue reading Label Peaks
Sometimes we may want to fade-in or fade-out an effect rather than have it start and end suddenly. This article looks at how we can do this automatically within an effect. The way that we would do this manually is by duplicating the track, applying the effect to the duplicate, then crossfading the two tracks … Continue reading Fading an effect in and out
Since the release of Audacity 3.0.3, the Audacity team have made Audacity for Linux available as an AppImage, in addition to the usual binaries for Windows / macOS and source code. This is good news for Linux users, though there are currently some caveats that users need to be aware of. What is an AppImage? … Continue reading Audacity AppImage (Linux)
Audacity has the ability to export label tracks as a text file, and/or import labels from a text file. More information about this is available in the Audacity manual. A limitation of this feature is that it is not available to use in batch processing. There is a macro command ImportLabels: but it only opens … Continue reading Import Labels
This plug-in can be helpful in situations where you have a project that has a lot (possibly hundreds) of labels, and you want to locate one specific label quickly by searching for the label text. While it is perfectly possible to scroll through the Label Editor window and look for the label text, the Label … Continue reading Find Label (plug-in)
Legacy plug-in by David Sky. Evenly pan your stereo audio, starting at one point in the stereo field and ending at another. -10 corresponds to 100% left, 0 to center and +10 to 100% right. Parameters: Start position: from [where -10 – +10, default -10] End position: from [where -10 – +10, default +10]