r/audacity

I got to audacityteam.org and it makes me try to sign up/login in. I thought it was a free software...

Is there ANY way to do this without signing up?

I used to use audacity regularly for recording. I have a mixer and 4 mics. I have used this exact mixer with these exact mics in the past, using audacity, and it's been great. This was all many, many years ago.

Cut to now, when I record audio, the waveform is nearly flat. If I normalize it or amplify it, it's audible. The waveform is in tact and has its relative highs and lows. It's just so small and just so quiet. And of course if I normalize and raise gain or amplify too much, you get all the static/white noise

I've seen things that say there was an update that caused this. I've seen plenty of things telling me to make sure I'm mono or I'm stereo or whatever else. I even tried audacity 4 but it's the same

I feel like I'm losing it over here. I don't know why it's suddenly happening, but it's just all so quiet

I and presumably others need that feature.

Also, note to all programmers on the planet: Stop adding an infinite number of dumb features per minute and removing the ones we need. Just leave this stuff alone and go play outside or something! It was fine the way it was! Thanks!

Update: Ok! Also no longer allowed to drag and drop mp3 files onto Audacity to add them to my project!

Another update: It seems I'm no longer allowed to align tracks.

What'd y'all do, figure out what features I needed most and then chop them?

I was told by my friend that I should go here to ask the pros because I suck at any form of audio mixing.

I'm trying to replicate modern radio output from a regular voice sample. I have one original mixed sample which is perfect for what I want, which I created yesterday. However, when I attempted to recreate the same effects on another voice sample today, it sounds more or less completely different.

When I instead went back to try to recreate the same effects on the same voice sample... it still came out differently. I'm sure I am doing something wrong with one or more of my effects, but I'd like to know what the difference is and how to correct it.

The effects I've used have been `Helmet Radio 1.1`, `Low-Pass Filter`, `High-Pass Filter`, `Distortion` and `Reverb` to recreate modern military/LEO radio output. I don't remember the order of effects being applied, or what the specific settings for each setting was, and I've spent the past 6 hours non-stop trying to replicate what I had in the beginning. The new version sounds a lot less distorted and generally too sharp or dry.

If anyone would be so kind as to help me figure out what it is I'm missing between these two audios, I'd be tremendously grateful. If required, I will also upload the whole original project I have for the first sample.

Reddit apparently removed my first post for breaking "filters" so I am unsure about how to upload the samples that I have. I can try uploading them in the comments.

I am looking to create a very specific effect where frequencies above a certain threshold get mirrored, or folded over. From what I understand, this is called aliasing, and it seems everyone on earth wants to get rid of it when it appears, so I've found very, very little success in finding help trying to MAKE it happen.

The very few places I've found help in this area talk about downsampling and the nyquist limit, but audacity seems to have a built in low-pass filter and upper bound on how much actually gets recorded to each track (specifically, half the sample rate, which is the nyquist frequency), and even on top of that, it seems to adjust the speed of clips in tracks when the sample rate is changed. The resample function is fine for downsampling, but again, it seems to prevent aliasing from happening.

I want to CAUSE this because I am trying to get a very specific sound. Bitcrushing will not do.

Is there an up-to-date plugin that I can use? The best and only plugin I could find for this was last updated in 2008 and I tried so, so, so, so, so hard to download an older version of Audacity to no avail.

Any amount of help is appreciated. If it helps at all, the frequency I'm specifically trying to fold over is 11.9 kHz.

EDIT: ToneBoosters "TIme Machine" free plugin has an aliasing option! This works exactly for what I'm trying to do! Many many thanks to u/Orry_Haas