Audacity Forum

one of the files will be bad You may be confusing the quality of the sound with the bitrate. Every time you create a new compressed sound file, you compress the original show and the show's compression damage . This is the horror of downloading sound files for your production and over two exports c...

This is a full-on portable studio for a movie sound shoot. Each of those is double. Note the moving pad on the floor. https://www.kozco.com/pictures/boothFinished/laptop-mic.jpg That's a Mac, so it doesn't make any noise. Yes, that is a home-made microphone shock mount. Genuine Postal Service Rubber...

Minimal soundproofing calls for deadening opposing surfaces. Floor, North Wall and West Wall for example. That will do an amazing job of killing the worst echoes. It will still be a "live" room, but it won't have that Kitchen or Bathroom sound. There are methods of cheaply sound proofing t...

Mac I have the AUGraphicEQ

Macs come with built-in effects. Audacity just picks them up in addition to its own and the ones you installed.

Had you bought the right computer, you'd have it on both.

Koz

Teleconferencing has its own problems. Step one. Everybody should be on headphones. The less correcting, patching, and filtering you force the conferencing software to do, the better. This tends to go around people because you are wearing headphones so your voice sounds terrific to everyone else. Th...

I have two favorite bad examples. Early on, someone went to great pains to build a simulation of a television news set. It was impressive with colors, angles, and lighting just right. The effect carried right up to the first time somebody said something. Instant kids recording in the bathroom. There...

only picking up a MIDI rather than an Audio input. You know MIDI isn't sound, right? MIDI is a series of instructions. MIDI has to play something and then you record the something. In the case of the computer, you get the MIDI to play the operating system's built-in instruments and then tell Audaci...

You could do that in Audacity, but Audacity will resample and reduce the sound quality while it's doing it. Much better one of the "pure" MP3 editors that doesn't resample the sound. MP3Cut??

Koz

Onboard 24-bit/192kHz USB audio/MIDI Interface That's from the instructions. How do you switch back and forth between MIDI and audio data stream? Or are they both there at once...? I switch my keyboard between the MIDI USB connection for production and the Headphone connection for actual sound reco...

first and last 5 seconds of this example Your sound recorder has automatic gain control—AGC. The good news is it will always record something and it doesn't matter what your voice volume is. The bad news is it can't tell the difference between voice and background noise. It produces Noise Pumping. ...