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ITunes lets me drag shows right to the desktop. Did you try that?

Koz

Unless you plan on investing in expensive, exotic microphones...



...changing the microphone isn't going to help. You have enough equipment to go with and just need to remove the noise.

Koz

I am not sure if it is loud enough or will it need enhancing ? No and yes. It sounds like you're presenting in a room with a hundred small window fans. Reducing the gain on the Focusrite only appears to hide the noise. The first step in correction is to boost the volume and the noise just comes rig...

Just for grins and giggles, I set my 13" MacBook Air up on a multiple folded-over bath towel on the desk in my soundproofed third bedroom. I went into Mac System Preferences > built-in-microphone and turned off Ambient Noise Reduction. I did multiple tests but this is the important one. I annou...

Audacity can do that if it doesn't understand a sound file, which means chances are really good it's not an MP3. You can download and install the FFMpeg software package which will allow Audacity to open up many more different found formats. This is the software for Audacity 2.1.2. Scroll down to Op...

The steps until now were low-hanging fruit. Easy filters and corrections that for the most part affect ACX-Test without affecting the sound. The clip still won't pass. Additional noise reduction. Noise Reduction -- Drag-select 1 sec to 4 sec. -- Effect > Noise Reduction: Profile -- Select the whole ...

The step where you connect your Music Spritzer sound device to the computer is responsible for the majority of the error posts on the forum. Even Macs, the stereo connection holdouts finally gave up and you need to add hardware if you want to record stereo on most of them.

Koz

Stop and Record always starts a new track. If you Stop a recording, you can pick it up again in the same place with Append Record (Shift-R). You can't crash record anywhere else. It will only start recording at the end of the old track. Pause (P) is supposed to Pause a recording and the second P sta...

Please don't double post. A forum elf has to OK your post for it to appear.

Koz

That's overdubbing pileup. It's not 100% fixable. There was one instance we never did figure out where the poster had crossed his record and playback pathways.

Anything here work for you?

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 34#p309134

Koz