Audacity Forum

When you play that raw clip, please note the bouncing light sound meter tips between -6 and -12 which is the ideal recording volume. ACX Submission peaks are not to exceed -3 and the Audacity recording peaks should be just about where you have them, so chances are there will always be some correctio...

Noise Reduction lives or dies on the profile step. That's where you let the tool sniff pure noise so it has a good idea what to do. If you allow the slightest bit of voice in the profile, Noise Reduction will try to delete the voice, too. That's why I made a fuss about making noises during the clip ...

Thanks for the suggestions. We did notice a shift in the effect depending on whether the listener was on headphones or speakers and then how well balanced or separated their speakers were. The delay is a good trick to create "manufactured stereo" and add interest to a mono performance. Koz

Before we get that far, what are you recording? Disco Mixer setup? Microphone?

Koz

Apple (upper left desktop) > System Preferences > Sound. You're looking for options and selectors to change your one connection into a Stereo Line-In. If you don't have them, then you don't have a Stereo Line-In and like the rest of us have to add hardware to get it. I use the Behringer UCA-202. htt...

it worked, but only on my personal computer. That usually means you made a Data CD with music files on it and not an Audio CD. iTunes and Windows Media support burning both and you have to lay attention in the CD Authoring instructions which one to pick. I have a little stand-alone, personal CD pla...

there is no sound when am playing it with Quick time player.

How about if you play it in a fresh (restarted) Audacity?
Koz

That's more like it. We're left with the gentle fffffffffff rain-in-the-trees hiss in the background and no fan noises. I Normalized to -3.2, Equalized with LF Rolloff and noise reduction at 9, 6, 6, more gentle correction than earlier, and LF Rolloff isn't doing as much work. I had to be careful to...

You defined it perfectly as a blue moon issue Moon-Phase is a programming/development term of art with an intentionally fuzzy specification of which phase. Blue moons are predictable. I suspect that perhaps this repeated pulling out and putting back in of the headphones is contributing to the condi...

I heard that "thing" after the word Noise. That's happened with other microphones and machines. My suspicion is my close-in metal desk lamp is forming a resonant cavity at just the right conditions. That will be almost as much fun to find as the hum from my leaky bass cabinet. Oh, and yes,...