Audacity Forum

Tell me how to do your fancy /users backup. Quick note, it's "/Users". Sometimes upper and lower case matters. Plain Mac Backups ( by Kozikowski ) Some of this may be a little different on your more modern machine. But I doubt it's that different. I keep my internal hard drive visible on ...

nothing seems to work. Possibly because you're recorder isn't at fault. Your player is. Can you listen to the work on something other than your computer? I don't hear anything wrong with the speech. Certainly no "loud buzzing." Are you using Wireless headphones? If you are, maybe you shou...

Do Not leave Zoom or other chat applications running while you're trying to record new work. Zoom takes over your sound services and you have nothing to say about it. Restart your Mac and don't let Zoom start when the machine wakes up.

Check System Preferences and then start Audacity.

Koz

Close Audacity. Apple (upper left) > System Preferences > Sound > Input. You should be able to see your microphone listed there and you should be able to make the built-in sound meter jump. If it's not there, then the connection to your microphone is damaged or missing. A bad cable or ratty plug may...

picked up umc22 over um2

But keeping the computer.

Post back how it goes.

Koz

and a Shure microphone. Shure makes a lot of microphones. Which one is this? i use a webcam Little thing that sits on top of your desktop computer screen? Screen Shot 2021-02-11 at 16.50.43.png You may be suffering from a high-pitch boost many microphones have because it sounds "more professio...

two actually that I rotate. Ever try to get "content" back off a Time Machine backup? It can give you a warm/fuzzy feeling until you try to use it. That's why I make a copy of the /User/koz folder. No magic. It takes a long time, but I get a plain copy of all my good stuff. That's just wh...

If you do go for a UM-2, note it overloads at a slightly different volume than Audacity. Record with the UM-2 red and green lights as a reference.

Koz

Anything that will plug into the XLR connection without an adapter should work. Save the papers. You have two problems. Mosquito Killer didn't work for you. Mosquito Killer was carefully designed to suppress the most common, ordinary whine sounds and still affect the show as little as possible. It's...

What would audio forensics people use? They may not. Most of the solutions you see in the movies and TV are pure Hollywood and don't exist in real life. There is also the warning that if the sound quality is bad enough, three people can listen to it and hear three different speeches. The best you c...