Audacity Forum

your view is that the way I'm doing it now is the best way to go if sound quality is a priority That is my view. You get the opportunity to individually adjust each voice for maximum quality and theatrical integration and the contributed voices never go through Skype compression and distortion. You...

I hope that was clear enough! Perfectly clear. You're making The Standard Podcast. You forgot adding music at the appropriate points. Themes, stingers, etc. They both record their audio in to audacity And that is, almost without question—given you can pull it off, the best way to do it. The podcast...

simply copying a section of your own silence from the waveform and Pasting it in? That would be yes. That's not "silence," that's Room Tone. If you don't have enough Room Tone, you'll have to make it by repeatedly pasting what you've got. The more you're not recording in a studio, the mor...

It's possible you ran them in the wrong order. Audacity checks for connections when it starts. If you started the USB microphone after Audacity started, the microphone will be invisible.

Restart Audacity or Transport > Rescan...

Koz

Yes, but...

If the drum really sounds like that, then the microphone is working perfectly correctly.

Koz

And since nobody's posted the other half of this yet: Never, ever do audio production in MP3. MP3 creates sound damage every time it works. Compression effects and artifacts can permanently damage a valuable show. ACX AudioBook requires posting of readings in MP3. In the course of producing differen...

The overdubbing process will supply the backing tracks to you during your fresh performance, you don't have to "help it." Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Recording: [X] Overdubbing. Only. Don't select anything else in that panel. That in addition to explicitly recording your microphone or ...

You may find shifting goals with the duvet as well. Furniture moving blankets are designed to be gooshy, firm and heavy to prevent damage when your credenza falls over in a moving lorry. The goal of a duvet is to be decorative, light, fluffy and warm. It's not unusual for a duvet to not affect sound...

Windows computers stopped being general purpose computers a while back in favor of business or corporate communications devices. What you're supposed to do is open your laptop and connect to a corporate goals meeting with several cities and the head office in Lausanne. What you are not supposed to d...

Do create a standard sound test and post it. I'll tell you the list of corrections you probably don't need any more (hopefully). A note on sound-proofing material. There is a scam where someone passes off shipping foam blocks as soundproofing because they look similar. Those have very different goal...