Well, I guess muting the sound is one interpretation of lowering the volume. LOL.
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That's exactly what I must have done! I just tested that, and it's much too easy to click it accidentally.SowasVon wrote: ↑August 7th, 2022, 1:53 pm Funny solution to the problem! You got me to check Audacity's shortcuts, to see whether there is one for muting the playback volume (it could happen that one presses it accidentally), but there isn't.
But when you click the little minus in the top left part of the volume bar, that mutes it. Maybe you've accidentally clicked it, who knows!
Anyway, good to hear that you could solve the issue
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I have hidden that toolbar for that very reason. I clicked it too many times accidentally. To hide it, go to View>Toolbars>Mixer toolbar. It will disappear. Ta-daa!Winnifred wrote: ↑August 10th, 2022, 11:19 amThat's exactly what I must have done! I just tested that, and it's much too easy to click it accidentally.SowasVon wrote: ↑August 7th, 2022, 1:53 pm Funny solution to the problem! You got me to check Audacity's shortcuts, to see whether there is one for muting the playback volume (it could happen that one presses it accidentally), but there isn't.
But when you click the little minus in the top left part of the volume bar, that mutes it. Maybe you've accidentally clicked it, who knows!
Anyway, good to hear that you could solve the issue
Thanks,
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That's a great tip! I've done it.mightyfelix wrote: ↑August 10th, 2022, 5:13 pm I have hidden that toolbar for that very reason. I clicked it too many times accidentally. To hide it, go to View>Toolbars>Mixer toolbar. It will disappear. Ta-daa!
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I recorded a short story, a little over thirty minutes. I tried going back to it today, to take out some silence at the start, add some at the end. The recording, imported back to Audacity, is in some new, compressed form. Before, it was in what I guess would be called an "expanded" form, in intervals of seconds. What came back is only in minutes, so everything is squashed on top of everything else. How do I go back?
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Audacity opens the file zoomed out, so that the whole thing shows in the window. Yes, it does squish it all horizontally.
You can click the plus magnifying glass to zoom in, or go to View > Zoom to set the level.
You can also hit Ctrl-2 to go to "normal" view.
You can click the plus magnifying glass to zoom in, or go to View > Zoom to set the level.
You can also hit Ctrl-2 to go to "normal" view.
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The J and K keys jump you to the very beginning and end respectively. To get to other parts of the recording there is a slider under the waveform display. Just move that left or right and click at the place in the waveform where you want to start playing.
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Hello! I have tried everything I can think of (still very amateur) to get my dB's higher than 68 but I just can't get it. Did my best to go through as much of this thread as I could to no avail.
Hardware: Shure MV7 mic
Software: Audacity, Checker, ShurePlus MOTIV
If there's anyone who has Discord who would be willing to help me live this weekend (20-21AUG22) when I'm off work, please let me know!
Also, if this is the wrong thread for this I'm very sorry :-S
Thank you!
Hardware: Shure MV7 mic
Software: Audacity, Checker, ShurePlus MOTIV
If there's anyone who has Discord who would be willing to help me live this weekend (20-21AUG22) when I'm off work, please let me know!
Also, if this is the wrong thread for this I'm very sorry :-S
Thank you!
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https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php?title=Noisecleaning_With_Pics
To raise the volume, either move up the microphone slider or amplify.
https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php?title=Amplifying
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I'm trying to "normalize" my reading. You said to hit "Ctrl-2". I've tried that many times, and nothing is happening. Don't I hit "Ctrl" AND "2" at the same time? If I do it the other way, how do I use "zoom in" to normalize the entire track?
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Zooming in (Ctrl-2) doesn't normalize the track; it just changes the horizontal scale / view of the wave forms. It's a visual thing only.
To normalize, select the entire track, then go to Effect > Normalize.
To normalize, select the entire track, then go to Effect > Normalize.
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OK, then the question is, how do I "select the entire track"? Right now, when I click Zoom, nothing changes. And when I click "Select all", and then Ctrl 2, or the reverse, it does nothing.
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