Audacity Forum

That's the custom filter for The Dreaded Yeti Curse. The Yeti has problems with getting rid of computer USB noise from your voice. It was "relatively" easy because most USB systems have similar data management and they all make about the same noise. If you have different noise. it may not ...

It may not be complaining about that. If your system drive is in trouble, the whole world becomes unstable. Audacity works in a system that cuts your world up into individual short chunks and then alternates between left and right. That's one of the reasons it's so hard to recover when a Project goe...

I've never met an adapter that went in via the analog connection. Fascinating. I don't think I'd have the bal.... nerve to do that. You should go into the Mac setups and make sure they're flat and not trying to help you. Apple (upper left) > System Preferences > Sound > Input. See that, I guess, Bui...

I've not had the opportunity to make a direct comparison between Behringer's older Xenyx and newer "Midas designed" pre-amps. And there in one sentence you have the problem. Nobody is saying: "I went across the street just to buy Midas preamps." I suspect one above comment is co...

The microphone preamplifier is a big deal. Microphone sound signals are so small, if you weren't looking for them, you'd swear they weren't there. Normal voice signals compete with the molecular/atomic noises the electronics makes. That's the background hiss (ffffffff) you hear behind a performance ...

it's actually more expensive on Amazon right now Don't get it from Amazon. Screen Shot 2017-02-02 at 16.08.55.png That's what I paid for mine from Sweetwater. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/UM2usb This would be hard. There's not a ton of difference between them. The form factor is very dif...

Adjusting the Recording Latency can be stupid simple. Make Audacity generate a click track and use that as the backing track. Set up to record your voice and instead of that, jam your headphone against the microphone. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity//pix/GTrackEarBuds.jpg Stop and compare the two tra...

(is that what a limiter does? maybe it was turned on) One version of limiter can do that, but Audacity doesn't apply effects, filters or corrections during recording. Stopping the blue waves at half-way is an alarm signal. Proper recording systems are never supposed to do that. Yelling is a valid t...

from 2-10mins worth gone from the final recording. I can understand how a buffer setting can cause stuttering, minor clicks or gaps, but two to ten minutes? that's like somebody turned off the computer and went to lunch. That's quite an error. Macs are sorta famous for not stopping apps. Close all ...

But my money is on a problem with the phantom power. Some noise problems are unlikely (not impossible) to come from an interface that offers 48 volt phantom power. Just the act of making 48 volts means your unit has to have filtering and regulation of the USB battery. I would bet you couldn't get &...