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by kozikowski
Wed Jan 31, 2018 1:14 am
Forum: Podcasting with Audacity
Topic: Removing distortion
Replies: 20
Views: 2713

Re: Removing distortion

I didn't try it yet with my cellphone.
It works with the cellphone, too. I was afraid of the cell radio energy getting into the show, but no. I tried it on a little stand-alone recorder and plugged into the laptop. Both work fine.

Koz
by kozikowski
Wed Jan 31, 2018 12:29 am
Forum: Podcasting with Audacity
Topic: Removing distortion
Replies: 20
Views: 2713

Re: Removing distortion

Here's a more modern one from when a water main exploded in front of my house. These are completely unedited except for cutting down to size. There is a natural 6dB change in volume between the two sides that's easy to fix in Audacity. You should not be talking over the guest anyway. And we are talk...
by kozikowski
Wed Jan 31, 2018 12:13 am
Forum: Podcasting with Audacity
Topic: Removing distortion
Replies: 20
Views: 2713

Re: Removing distortion

I don't want to talk you into anything you don't want to do, but the goal is to remove the sound from the Skype computer as fast and cleanly as you can. Make sure you check your recording software as close to the performance time that you can. The desperation method is pick up the phone and record t...
by kozikowski
Wed Jan 31, 2018 12:03 am
Forum: Podcasting with Audacity
Topic: Removing distortion
Replies: 20
Views: 2713

Re: Removing distortion

interviewee, whose voice was messed up by whatever the problem was, and the interviewer, who sounds fine. Perfectly correct. The local microphone is recorded directly. The far side comes from Skype. I know another podcaster who requires his team to get the interviewees to make a recording of themse...
by kozikowski
Tue Jan 30, 2018 11:34 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: presonus firepod
Replies: 8
Views: 1002

Re: presonus firepod

Did you Google it before you bought it? Windows 10 demands software drivers written for it. Older drivers will be unstable or just fail. I normally don't pay any attention to reviews but these were interesting. One bad review had it back to Presonus multiple times and then just finally gave up. One ...
by kozikowski
Tue Jan 30, 2018 10:59 pm
Forum: Podcasting with Audacity
Topic: Removing distortion
Replies: 20
Views: 2713

Re: Removing distortion

The performer is the person whose voice is on the clip. To resolve sound issues it's best to know where it's been. So the performer is simply talking into his cellphone? Someone has a license (required last I checked) to cross-connect his cellphone call to Skype. Skype delivers the connection to the...
by kozikowski
Tue Jan 30, 2018 6:34 pm
Forum: Podcasting with Audacity
Topic: Removing distortion
Replies: 20
Views: 2713

Re: Removing distortion

He said he noticed the bad sound quality after he started recording... So depending on what broke, you would be setting yourself up for a duplicate failure. I still don't think I have all the pieces of this. If the performer is on Skype, why was it being recorded multiple continents away? Time Zone...
by kozikowski
Tue Jan 30, 2018 12:37 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: What is this noise? (image)
Replies: 8
Views: 647

Re: What is this noise? (image)

I have no access to the setup.
So you can't get a sound clip? 10 seconds stereo, 20 seconds mono.

I don't know we can do anything with the pictures. We need the sound signature and spectral distribution analysis, etc. etc. etc.

Koz
by kozikowski
Tue Jan 30, 2018 12:27 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Zoom Audacity Window
Replies: 5
Views: 298

Re: Zoom Audacity Window

Or do you mean when you change the screen resolution? In this case, the entire interface changes size accordingly (all applications including Audacity). I may have stepped in the snake pit. My larger "office" monitor is not running at its native resolution. It's reduced to video Hi Def an...
by kozikowski
Tue Jan 30, 2018 11:51 am
Forum: Podcasting with Audacity
Topic: Removing distortion
Replies: 20
Views: 2713

Re: Removing distortion

The clip has significant trash below 100Hz. Tones that low are not needed for speech and it's not unusual for people to use the 100Hz filter on sound mixers. I can still hear wind noises in the background even with that.

Koz