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As a note, this is where not having a conventional sound setup may be a problem. This is my small sound mixer. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MixerControls-500.jpg There are three different places to boost the volume if I have a quiet presenter. I have never actually run out. That's not what tho...

I had to shoot a voice track for an animation movie and one of the performers was a very shy Asian woman with a terrific voice that never got much above a whisper even when she was trying really hard. That was a difficult shoot.

Koz

It doesn't sound like yelling. You're presenting very forcefully and firmly. If you could keep that up for a book it might work reasonably well. That's kind of the bad-ish news. There are some failures where the microphone will refuse to deliver sound higher than a certain volume and there are lists...

Can Koz, or anyone, provide more specific ideas on what to try? It's going to be "anyone." I'm not good with dissecting the mysteries of Windows recording. Nothing I do gets rid of the "tunnel" or "barrel" sound upon playback of recorded music Chances are good the soun...

This is a Behringer UCA-202 between my analog sound mixer and a laptop without a stereo connection.



It works both directions and it's certified for Perfect Overdubbing for the musicians.

Koz

Can zoom-in the loudest 24dB ... That's only the top of the waveform. In case you missed the conversion, Audiobook readers need to set their recording peaks between 50% and 34%. "Let's see, put down 1/3, times twenty log 10....." Old Cool Edit graphic screen capture. http://kozco.com/tech...

You can't fill up your internal drive, either. That's where Audacity goes when it runs out of hardware memory.

Koz

How long is the show? My first guess is the machine is busy doing other things. This is easier than you think. Audacity has to do everything in active memory and that can be in short supply if you have Skype and FaceBook open in the background and the last thing you did was open several web pages an...

I was speaking off to the side a bit to avoid mouth sounds That's how I do it. Most recordists are horrified at doing that, but it works for me, and if you like the sound, you, too. I can tell immediately on playback when I'm not. Using little or no advanced warning we have to determine how much re...

The crystal ball is in the shop. Tell us what you're doing and which Audacity three-number version you have.

"I'm recording my voice with a Snowball USB microphone on a Vista HP Laptop."

Are you using an external USB drive or Cloud Drive?

Koz