Vertical red lines

greenblue03

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?

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Hi greenblue,

The red lines indicate clipping, which is where samples exceed the maximum possible value. If you are getting this immediately after loading a file then this is actually a bug in WavePad. The bug isn't serious, it just shows some values in red when they shouldn't be. We have since fixed the bug and the fix will be included in the next release. As a workaround you should be able to save and re-open the files, after which the red lines should go away.

Alex

Ronster

It may be because you are recording at too high a sound level.