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His name is David Nelson, from Inverness, Scotland. Not very famous, but he's done some pretty nice music.
I found him on Youtube where he demonstrated a pretty elaborate home-made record lathe. His Youtube and Soundcloud account names are both "pentlandsound".

kozikowski wrote:Still wouldn't mind hearing some of the work...

Koz

http://picosong.com/yNXj/

Not my original song, though!

I assume I can use whatever sounds good on online services such as Spotify, but what if I want to burn my music a CD, or even go as far as sending it to a vinyl pressing plant? How do I need to prepare my tracks for such formats, if needed? I would prefer if you could separate each answer from each ...

waxcylinder wrote:Have you tried using the Audacity Amplify effect to boost the level of the recording ?

WC

Yes, but that didn't help much!

waxcylinder wrote:

simonsko wrote:No, I accidently wrote quit instead of quite!

I assume you really mean "quiet" ??

WC

Yes! Sorry for the typo! Well, why is it still quiet even though I'm converting the video file to a wav file?

kozikowski wrote:<<<I converted the video file to a wav file but it's still quit when I try to remove the vocals!>>>

Audacity crashes? That's not the question you asked at the top. Is that what happens?

Koz

No, I accidently wrote quit instead of quite!

<<<Why can't I remove vocals from a MP3 track converted from a video file?>>> MP3 audio format damages the sound a little and that damage tends to make vocal removal harder. We tell people to do production and effects from a WAV file, not MP3. If you got the sound track from an on-line server or co...

I've got two questions!

1. Why can't I remove vocals from a MP3 track converted from a video file?
2. When I want to perform a voice-over, the track that I'm dubbing can't be heard during the dubbing, why?