Audacity Forum

Upgraded to Audacity 2.2.2, which gives me more seconds of sound but still lots of gibberish. And though the mic is a foot from the guitar -- either a Sterling (which I think is directional) or the Rode NT1-A which I don't think is directional -- all I hear is voice, no guitar.

You're talking about editing the raw waveform, a very tricky business, maybe impossible in this case though I sympathize with your purpose. Never done it myself, except for clipping out pops especially between recorded sections. Try asking your question at audio pro forums: https://recording.org/ ht...

I've just started to experiment with recording voice and guitar using Audacity. It works fine with: Desktop system (very fast CPU, no special sound card) with Win 7 -> Audiobox USB -> Rode and Sterling mic -> Audacity 2.1.0 But then I tried with my HP laptop (Celeron N2840 CPU 2.16GHz), Win 8 -> sam...

BRILLIANT! Worked like a charm! I never paid attention to that little drop-down. Thanks a million.

I have a bunch of old reel-to-reel tapes that I probably made or collected in the late 60s and 1970s. I was a low-income student then so the deck would not have been a good one. I want to digitize a few and toss all the tapes. For playback I rented a used Pioneer deck from a local audio shop. But im...

Thanks for the tips. I downloaded 2.1.2 which seems to function just fine. After writing the plea above last night, I continued to try to figure out the problem, and discovered that not even youtube vids would play, nor VLC movies. Bizarre. Then somehow the freeze resolved itself. So it was not just...

Win7 Pro system, Audacity v2.1.0 While I was fiddling with an mp3, all of a sudden the app ceased to recognize the green arrow play button. I tried clicking any obvious button or link to no avail. it will not play the file. The system appended a little space in front of the beginning of the file. I ...

Using v. 1.2.6 on new WIndows XP Pro system. Audiophile 192 soundcard is indicated as source in all the appropriate Sounds and Audio Devices fields. I attempt to record, but the tracks show no sound, though importing and playback of mp3s sound normal. The little menu field in the Mixer toolbar that ...