I'm finally learning my way through audacity and making some progress with processing shows in it. Here is my question-
1. When I have the 2 filesets open (audience and sbd) and I'm playing around with the sliders to get the sound the way I want, how do I lock in that sound? If I have the sbd at +6 and the aud at -3 on the sliders do I then need to go into the amplification option and set the peak at whatever level I want to set it at or can I just adjust it on the sliders and then save the files and the levels will be locked in then?
Either. You can just set the adjustments on the left with the +/- numbers and then when you do a mix/render task it will adjust the amplification and then mix, or you can do individual amplification tasks on each and set the left adjustments to 0. A lot of the time I'm lazy and use the ones on the left and let mix/render sort it out.
Just make sure you don't use a positive value that is greater then the peak otherwise it will amplify into clipping and then render that so make sure you know what sort of headroom you have first.
I've compensated by saying "ok, I want a 4db split", but whether it's -3, +1 or +1, +5 doesn't make any difference if you're bumping up against headroom.
2. I was reading on the wiki and it said that if I have multiple tracks open the amplification will be applied to all tracks, so I'm assuming I need to close one, amplify to my desired level, then close that and open the other and amplify, then open the first one back up and export as one file to mix them together? That seems like the very complicated way to do things but like I said I'm still trying to figure out audacity.
thanks for any tips or help
You can do individual track selection to mitigate a task from affecting everything in the workflow window. Just highlight audio and run, in this case, highlight the entire track and run the desired task.