Audacity Forum

What is the playback device? Where does Audacity think it's sending the sound? What's it say in the little speaker window?

What's the show? What kind of performance is it and how did you record it?

Koz

Does the performance ever hit two or more notes at once? That's the end of the world. Manufacturers did a terrific, bang-up job of fooling everybody into thinking MIDI is a sound format. Somebody sends you a MIDI song and you play it on your computer, right? That's what it looks like you're doing. A...

Or better, the 802USB. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Q802USB--behringer-xenyx-q802usb-mixer-with-usb Our favorite UCA-202 can do this. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/peaveyUCA202Lenovo.jpg If you can get the two signals into RCA connection form. Put one signal on the left and one ...

I can hear you objecting to the apparent sloppiness of the method. By the time the radio signals get done bouncing around the Kennelly–Heaviside layer you'd be lucky to get "real" time to the nearest eighth second. The SDR receivers have their own problems. The minute you transition betwee...

I have the original audio and the delayed audio on different sound devices Already recorded? If you already have the work digitally recorded on two separate sound devices, you're stuck. The sound mixing desk trick only works when you're measuring the different between two live, real-time sound stre...

Audacity gets its sound from Windows, not the microphone or interface. Windows has to recognize the hardware and accept the sound before you do anything else. The Windows sound control panel has a bouncing light sound meter and that has to work before you launch Audacity.

Koz

I record my piano directly from the piano using a USB. Is it MIDI or an actual digital sound connection? If it's MIDI, you're actually recording the piano sound generated by the MIDI interpretor in your computer, not the tone generator in the piano. You can get a different piano sound by using a di...

The DeSibilator goes last! It uses the sound processing of the three tools in the Mastering Suite.

I don't think I said that anywhere.

Koz

Back in the office. I produced two mastered versions. One plain and one with DeSibilator applied to suppress Essing. The crisp boosting is not that bad with this microphone and you may decide to just leave it all in there. I like the smoother DeSibilated version. Hud-Heff-Take-2-Mastered.wav Hud-Hef...

Gotta love those heifers. Did you notice all your noise problems vanished and simple, three-step mastering produces a marketable product? Screen Shot 2020-12-06 at 16.43.49.png I did this... https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/AudiobookMasteringSuite.jpg Which is lifted from this wiki posting. h...