greenblue03

I was in the midst (about halfway through) editing a bunch of songs from a recent concert. All of a sudden this morning, WavePad wouldn't load properly. I ended up uninstalling it. When I tried to reinstall it, I was told that I had to upgrade to a newer version. I didn't really mind since I had been using the same version for several years, and while the $25 was an unwelcome expenditure, it's not a huge one. Everything I was using before seems to be there, although in a different place. However, I discovered something truly annoying right away. It seems I can no longer do multiple clicks of Fade In and Fade Out like I used to. I make heavy use of those features at the beginning and end of each song. Instead, each time I have to click on the menu bar. I'm also noticing at least one extra click when I cut out a section of a file. Is there some way to shorten the process to like it was before? Because all of a sudden the editing process is taking me considerably longer than it used to. It's annoying when something doesn't work as well as it used to. Why try to fix something that wasn't broken? Is there a way I can go back to the version I was using before?

Thanks, Ben! I will play around with the equalizer when I edit the next track. I don't know why -- but I've found that a clean-up feature called auto spectral subtraction...(slower speed, best quality) seems to improve the quality of the recording. But I wish there was something else, another feature, that could up the volume of the vocals. BTW I'm not planning to attend another event until the problem of the loud piano is solved.

Recently I attended a private concert by a famous singer and his longtime musical director who accompanies him on the piano. The singer does not use a mic at these kinds of events. It wouldn't be a problem if the pianist didn't play so loudly (he's used to playing for Broadway shows). I made a recording of the concert with a Sony handheld recorder that's capable of producing pretty high quality output. My questions is: are there any filters that would bring out/up the vocals so they're not drowned out by the piano? I've been experimenting and a couple of WavePad features seem to improve the sound quality of the file. But I would love some advice on what would work best. Thanks.

I've been using WavePad for years. The free version meets my needs. Recently, I had to have my computer wiped clean, which meant installing a more recent version of WavePad than I had been using. Now, the files I load are full of vertical red lines. Where did those lines come from, and how can I get rid of them? They make it much more difficult to do the editing I need to do. They do disappear once a file is normalized. But I want to work on the file before it is normalized and I don't want to see a bunch of vertical red lines. Can someone help me understand what's going on?

Thank you! I am currently doing a batch of about 30 tracks from this one audio file, and this particular track is probably the most time-consuming because of its length and having to remove several sections of applause. But fortunately it's not among the most important. After I'm finished with the batch, I'll probably go back and try again to get a clean wav file.

Many thanks for the response. However, that wasn't my question. In fact, I wouldn't have asked a question had I lost the mp3 file and not the wav file. My question is -- during the compression process -- when the mp3 is made -- is all information lost forever? Or, can the missing information be recovered if I load the mp3 into the software and save it as a wav file? In other words, I don't know how the compression process works. You may want to know why I just don't make another wav file since I have the original audio file. Well, I tried that yesterday, and the new wav file has some "static pops" on it that somehow I managed to eliminate when I made the previous (lost) wav and mp3 files. I know the pops are from amplification, but while normalizing the file got rid of them the first time, normalizing did not get rid of all of them yesterday.

I am currently in the process of editing a large, recently recorded wav audio file into individual tracks. I save each track in both wav and mp3 formats. I'm not sure why but for some reason I am missing the wav version of a track. I have the mp3. Here is my question: When you save a file in the mp3 format, is the missing information lost forever in the compression? Or, if I load the mp3 into the software and save it as a wav, will I have a file that's equivalent to what it would have been had I saved the file when I should have, that is, when it was initially created? Many thanks to anyone who has an answer.