Audacity Forum

Sometimes when Windows sees a USB sound device, it will try to send the sound back to the USB device when you're finished recording. Look at the speaker symbol device in Audacity and see where it thinks your audio should go. Things might return to normal if you unplug your USB microphone. That's the...

If they pass ACX Check, then they just have to make it through Human Quality Control. If your voice is normal, there's no reason not to sail through.

Koz

Levelator only claims to even out volume variations much like Chris's Compressor. Neither of them affects equalization, sibilance, essing or room echoes. I found many of these universal fixit tools are designed to improve your studio recording, not make a studio recording from something that isn't. ...

Yesterday I downloaded the Levelator.

From where? It doesn't seem to be one of the Audacity filters or effects—or at least not that I could find.

Koz

I don't know of any Effects Template. You can't add a track to an existing show and have your effects suite automatically added to it. it seems as if I get both of those effects overlaid, though the EQ curve just looks like the most recent selection I've made. It's worse than that. Audacity applies ...

I have to try it and see. There's another trick posted by someone reading for a different company.

A lot of this stuff seems complicated when reading the instructions, but less so when you get rolling, much like the five-volume set: "How to ride a Bicycle."

Koz

I agree. I favor microphones which don't put that grit in the sound in the first place.

Koz

That better?

Koz

The thumb and pinky gesture is the Shaka Hawaiian sign for Hang Loose. And yes, that is about the right spacing.

Koz

-- You can get LF-Rolloff from me. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/Documents/LF_rolloff_for_speech.xml.zip Decompress the ZIP archive into LF_rolloff_for_speech.xml. It's pretty tiny. Adding Audacity Equalization Curves -- Select something on the timeline. -- Effect > Equalization > Save/Manage ...