Audacity Forum

Given MP4 is more advanced that MP3 and minimum quality for MP3 mono is 30, why do you think you need 500 quality? Audacity default good quality MP3 stereo export is or used to be 128. they've been exporting in 192 192 is submission quality for a published audiobook. How do you know that they're in ...

You're just supposed to drop it in the Audacity plugins folder. http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#How_do_I_install_Nyquist_plug-ins.3F ACX Check will announce itself the next time you launch Audacity. It appears under Analyze. It does have a couple of oddities: AC...

What's the real Audacity number and what are you recording?

One waveform (the top) is normal

You can get something like that if you try recording something by plugging into the Mic-In of your laptop.

You need to tell us more about what you're doing.

Koz

my old radio shack, just plugged in You can get insanely lucky. If you have your computer set to record internet sound and you plug your MIDI keyboard in, you can record your music in one step. But you're not really recording your keyboard. As above comments, your keyboard is playing the MIDI softw...

Yes, but where did that filename come from?

Koz

So someone forced a name change from music_omega_danger.mp3 to music_omega_danger.wav? Or the real name is music_omega_danger.wav.mp3 and Windows is hiding the real extension? Please note 60 is the lowest quality stereo MP3 will go without audible distortion. Mono is 30. Even with 80, you will not b...

It's a good idea not to do production on original raw recordings. After you finish a shoot, Export a WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit of the work before you do anything else. If you're professionally obsessive (raising hand) copy the work to a second location, thumb drive or other storage. You can include dat...

You must be leaving something out. Are you overdubbing? What's the job?
Koz

Audacity > Preferences > Recording: [X] Playthrough (both) > OK

I don't think the Software Playthrough actually does anything. It may have in the past.


Koz

Recording latency, which is what you're adjusting measures the time relationships between playing the backing track to you and where the recording goes. If your setting is moving, it could be the machine can't keep the relationship constant through defect/instability, the machine is filling up, or i...