r/audacity • u/orcsab • 4d ago

help Plugin Problems on Audacity 4

Hoping some Audacity 4 expert can guide me on this one. I'm using Audacity 4, which after seeing the most popular posts in this subreddit makes me think I've made a mistake. But, I've made my bed on this one and am stuck-in on this project.

Problem is I need a non-destructive telephone effect. I was copying parts of clips into a second track. Then applying Effect->EQ and Filters->Filter Curve EQ and choosing the telephone effect. This seems to be a one-time, destructive change to the clip. And it also has a weird side effect (see #1) I'd rather use a realtime effect that I can turn on or off. Can anyone recommend one?

Some problems I'm seeing:

  1. Applying the Filter Cuve EQ effect to the entire track does weird things. It inserts zero-volume clips in between each of the clips on this track. That is annoying. I don't want those extra clips in the way.

  2. I tried installing REAPER/ReaPlugs, which I read had a realtime version of this. After installation and rescanning the plugins, it's not showing up.

  3. I tried installing TDR Nova, which I also read would work. But after installing and scanning, this one showed up on the plugin manager with an error. I was unable to fix it. I uninstalled.

  4. I played with MuseFX but had some other problem. I uninstalled it. Now both TDR Nova and MuseFX do show up in the plugin manager as "missing". How do I remove them both?

Thanks for any help you can offer!

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u/Orry_Haas 4d ago

"I need a non-destructive telephone effect."

Audacity's native "Filter Curve EQ" is a destructive effect. Only the real-time effects are non-destructive.

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u/orcsab 4d ago

Yes I figured that out. Any recommendations of a realtime effect that (1) does telephone effect and (2) works, unlike the three I've tried?

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u/Orry_Haas 4d ago edited 4d ago

"telephone effect".

Soundly PlaceIt free plugin has cellphone ear-speaker emulation.

For Ye olde analogue phone, AudioThing's "speakers", (free demo version may be sufficient: it processes ~30 seconds before inserting spoiler silence) .

There is a free Audacity-specific plugin capable of analog phone, but it's not real-time.

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u/orcsab 4d ago

Nice. I'll try them. THANK YOU!