Audacity Forum

This microphone takes 48volt Phantom Power, so you have that button pushed, right? Well, shucks. This is one of the systems least likely to have noise problems like this. Usually, someone buys a cheapo USB adapter and it has trouble with the computer and starts making noises. That's not how yours wo...

Have you had the Air for a while?

Go (top bar) > Computer > Control-Click on the little hard drive icon toward the left > Get INFO.

Read the Capacity and Available.

Click on or scroll around the attached graphic

Koz

It's 4am in England, so it may take a bit.

Koz

Some are burned into the Audacity code and some are stuck on with library paste.

I predict one of the first things the senior elves are going to do is bump you up to Audacity 2.1.2. But I'll leave that up to them.

I turned on the bat signal.

Koz

This may be the time we wait for a Windows elf. I don't know enough about the Audacity Windows structure to be helpful. I know what some of that code is. That's the simple XML programming for LF-Rolloff. This is what it looks like in a text editor. <equalizationeffect> <curve name="LF rolloff f...

is it a different preset all together?

Whole new one. If it appears, then only the collection of older presets is gone. If it doesn't appear, Audacity may be broken.

Koz

One more. Which three-number Audacity version do you have?

Koz

OK, that was the low-hanging fruit. I attached a very tiny XML program called LF_Rolloff. It's a custom equalizer filter for difficult voice recordings. Download it, install it and see if it shows up properly. This is a very old illustration, but the rough shape of the curve is about right. http://k...

To quote a tired line, when was the last time you restarted your machine from power off?

Koz

any ideas why when i play my recording back it starts to crackle after 3 mins? On the Windows machine, right? It starts up in the same time each listening pass, right? It always sounds the same, so it's burned into the show? That might be an Audacity 2.1.2 thing. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewt...