For context I have the base form of audacity. I don't know what plug ins are. So far Ive been takining the supersayin sound effect and putting it up to my headset. The result is a low quality dollar store sounding ass goku. Id like to insert high quality sounds to my stories. However I dont know how to get them

What kind of effects? Firstly you have to import an audio file, or record directly in audacity, then you apply effects afterwards.

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I can’t find a way to activate the effects too .

Thanks for your message.
The Effect block is added where the playhead is and then in the lane where a track or sample is that is selected in yellow.

I see in your video that the playhead is not visible in the studio window, it probably is somewhere else in your timeline. (scrolled out of the view)
I also don't see a track or sample with a yellow header to indicate that the sample is selected.

If you watch my video at the link below, you see both the playhead and the sample selected in yellow before I click in the xy path and then the effect block does appear.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kDzX801XWegqHeHXKbfnvC8z6McAei2k/view?usp=sharing

If you do that too, does it work for you?

Marking this one as solved!

My system varies depending on the audio, but a basic work flow is

Compressor

GraphicEQ at suggested settings

Bass -4, treble +8

Normalize -3db

Amplify down to more acceptable levels

I then start tinkering from there

When I was using Audacity a while ago the most annoying thing was that it applied effects directly to the track, making it super difficult to try multiple things simultaneously.

If you're not yet familiar with Audacity and its effects/plugins you should really give Reaper a try. Much more professional and it free-ish like Winrar. Much better plugin support, miles ahead.

It may have been a seperate track, now that I think about it!

You have all your effects on the channel you have assigned to the armed channel, and then when it’s placed in the playlist, it’s not assigned to a mixer channel, so it’s clean. I always record on channel 30 (only because it’s usually out of the way, and routine establishes work flow). What you can do, is side chain your input channel to the targeted effects channel so you can record with the effects, then assign the recorded clean file to your effects channel. That leaves your dedicated input channel clean. That allows you to go back and modify something on the effects channel if you need to (almost always need to at some point). Not doing so bakes in your effects, so if you need to reduce reverb, or you change your BPM slightly and your delay is now way off… you’re screwed. I usually record bass, then guitar of some sort, then a trumpet or some live drums or something, then vocals… and do so all through the same input channel, switching targeted effects channels through side chain. Gives you best of both worlds.

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Its actually a good thing so you can change the fx of your vocals however you like. But to put the effects on your newly recorded Audio Clip must be in the right mixing channel. Go to the channel rack and look which channel they are routed to. Usually it would be already routed the right way.

Should be able to turn on record and monitoring (green speaker button in the sequencer track) for the mixer channel/rack channel your guitar is being routed through and make sure effects are not bypassed. Disable direct monitoring on your interface. Most likely sounds like monitoring in reason is turned off during recording.

Do you mean effects like reverb/delay, or effects like a guitar amp plugin? Many folks prefer to record the DIRECT guitar signal so they can tweak effects in the mix, others prefer to commit all FX when recording (as if you used a pedal board and mic’ed the amp). If you want to record effects to an audio track you’ll need a little more complex setup using a Mix Channel with the FX, click on REC SOURCE on that channel in the Rack, then create an Audio Track (the only type that can record audio) and assign the Mix Channel to it’s input.

My approach if recording FX is to ALSO record the dry/DI original signal on a separate track that I would keep muted and only use if I needed to re-visit the FX settings – make sense?

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/macros.html

Why not just highlight the files all at once

Did they add new effects like a telephone voice filter?

the grouping got added in 3.2.0 actually.