Audacity Forum

There is no "crying" and "vocals." There's a lot of human voices smashed together. Audacity has no way to split them apart. The only way you recognize the difference is because you're human. The computer has no clue.

Koz

When you get to the right display, Shift-Command-4 will turn the cursor into a little cross-hair. Draw a box around your graphic. The system should give you a time and date "png" graphic on the desktop.

Koz

Phase Inversion tricks come with an awkward "feature." They appear that you should be able to work the trick backwards...and you generally can't. The only two pre-packaged Audacity tricks are Effect > Vocal Remover and Effect > Vocal Reduction and Isolation. http://manual.audacityteam.org/...

You may be suffering from what is normally a Windows problem.

Click on empty desktop.

Finder (upper bar) > Preferences > Advanced > [X] Show All Filename Extensions.

Koz

Maybe not in Audacity. Audacity has no tools to manage constantly changing noises. We do OK with constant noises like computer fans, microphone hiss and air conditioner noises, but you hit one we can't easily deal with. You have a double whammy in that you're also trying to split human voices apart ...

Seems to me then that I am veering towards storing the 'source' final edited files in WAV format and then consider transcoding them to whatever format I need depending on the 'destination' - is that sounding sensible? Perfectly. That's how I shoot and deliver work to a client. although thinking abo...

I know you're looking for "Push this button and everything will be OK." There are certain microphone and environment combinations which will never be OK and we need to know that before we waste everybody's time.

Koz

Please don't double post. I'm responding to your other posting.

Koz

If you're in Windows, you can get Windows processing to help you in real time. Normally, this processing gets in the way of home recording because it doesn't like music very much and we tell people how to turn it off, but you may be the poster child for using it. It's designed to accept speaking voi...

Home performers nearly always miss ACX conformance when they record low volume with either a poor microphone or a noisy environment (or both). Record a short test and post it here on the forum. The content isn't important, read the milk carton, but do it in your normal performing style and Do Not ap...