Audacity Forum

How do I even know what level I am recording at? I am sure this is a dreadfully basic question Basic, but not obvious. This AudioBook thing not a version of talking into your phone to your sister is Schenectady. You are replacing a recording engineer and studio. Which can be done, don't let me scar...

Oh, and if I haven't written these words yet, Audacity is not recommended as a surveillance recorder. Older versions of Audacity would not go over 13 hours which was a gotcha for people wanting to record all day. Messy things can happen to computers that think they have been abandoned for extended p...

I know of no single failure that can cause all those symptoms. That's why I'm going with a system failure.

It could also be doing multiple things wrong. Those are the most fun.

Not knowing what portion of the content failed just kills us.

Koz

turn off the sleep mode, so that's a good thing to try. And Energy Saver. Don't leave that one out. The recordings of 6 hours have silence parts too, so that's why I doubt that setting is on. See, it's darn good to know that when we're struggling for clues. Although that doesn't do anything for me....

Do you know what that big knob on the right does? It's not labeled and I'm suspicions of any controls with selectors I don't understand. Typically that's the headphone volume and analog output, but it doesn't have to be.

Koz

The microphone will not work without Phantom Power. Can you get all the Audient iD14 green lights to come on when you announce? That's a good start. We use flashing -6 dB as a recording goal, but -12 is good. Does the Audient appear in the Windows setup panels? That's required for this to work. Win8...

Here it is. Audacity > Preferences > Recording > Sound Activated Recording. I picked that because of the erratic nature of your symptom. If the neighborhood quiets down in the middle of the day and the dog doesn't spit up, the whole middle of the recording would be missing. There are relatively smal...

Please don't double post. Your submissions will be moderated for a while and appear when an elf reads them. Which Audacity do you have and did you get it from here? http://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/ Macs don't have "internal." We have to add software such as SoundFlower to record i...

You won't know where the shortcomings are until your first serious recording. For example, I could not have predicted my Growling Tummy Syndrome (GTS).

Koz

If you are setting up in the basement and have access to the ceiling beams, the walls can be wherever you want them to be. You can make a room one blanket wide and deep.

Koz