Audacity Forum

We should fill in a few holes. The microphone is: The 502 is not a USB mixer. Where did you get the computer USB connection from? Look at the Audacity device toolbar paying attention to the recording side (little microphone). Odds are terrific you're recording from the laptop built-in microphone, no...

This is a simple left-right stereo sound test I recorded. I'm not a performer, but it does sound human. http://www.kozco.com/tech/LRMonoPhase4.wav This is how I found a computer was "helping me out" by adding effects. The Left only and Right only parts of the test failed. The opposite spea...

It sounds like a natural voice here, too. Can you play the sound on something else like a personal music player?

Koz

I can think of one oddity that Audacity may not know how to handle. This is a full-duplex device, completely happy with pushing sound both directions on the USB cable at the "same time." (Same time in quotes. USB can't actually do that.) Even though the Mac can manage that, I'm betting Aud...

Correct me, but hasn't this been problem at the leading and trailing edges of the sound? Those are traditionally magic with modulation effects. Maybe the system can't handle the extra tones generated normally when a sibilant turns on and off. Are you using 44100Hz for a sampling frequency? Does it c...

Like that?

Now I need to remember how I did that......

Koz

ACX AudioBook recommends strongly to use an external USB hard drive for audio production. You can get into trouble doing that. There are stiff restrictions on using external USB drives and video people have found it to be unstable. To dip into Mac for a second, FireWire and Thunderbolt drives don't ...

You are not editing "an AUP file." you are editing an Audacity Project. This is an Audacity Project. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MyMusicAUP-MyMusic_DATA.jpg _DATA is not a file, it's a folder holding your sound data. Try Spotlight search, the little magnifying glass in the upper rig...

Which means I put you wonderful people through a lot of hoops!

It's good to be able to say we know how to cure it when additional people arrive with this problem.

Koz

only becomes conspicuous when loud high-frequency sound occurs. Yeah. That was mine. I got it immediately trailing a word ending with very aggressive SSS sound. I gotta go back to my notes...... I just didn't notice it until edits The clip would have sailed right by me until it was flagged and note...