Audacity Forum

Audio-Technica A2035 I think a YouTube performer I like uses one of those. so that's probably why the ffffff sound is so much more pronounced. Nope. The fffff sound is coming from inside the Scarlett. That's the sound the microphone electronics and processing inside the Scarlett makes. It's fixed. ...

Audacity will stop recording during silences with a setting.

Edit > Preferences > Recording: [_] Sound Activated.... (de-select)

Koz

In case I wasn't clear, it's not a bad idea to watch the Audacity sound meters out the corner of your eye while you perform. That's why we changed the sound meters to be much larger than earlier versions and designed a color scheme that starts getting angry (yellow, orange and then red) as you appro...

The good news is your voice is perfect and clear and the background sound (room tone) is undetectable. The not so great news is the voice volume is super low. Audacity has sound meters and time line graphics (blue waves) to aid you in setting voice volume. This is roughly what your Audacity is suppo...

You'd expect these USB LED lights to be safe. No engineer has ever been able to resist adding "features." When the engineers were running Apple for a while there, they brought out an iPod with the traditional scroll-wheel, tilt functions and the button in the middle.....and four function ...

Edit > Preferences > Recording: [_] Sound Activated... (de-select)

Koz

i'm not on the NET

So you're recommending an air-gap firewall. Good idea. I have several computers with no active network connection.

Koz

What are you recording, what devices do you have and how are they connected?

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/Docu ... tions3.pdf

Koz

Alesis MultiMix 4 USB Which one? Model numbers? http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MultiMix4FX That's going to put you into XLR microphone territory almost immediately. Probably why you weren't all that excited about using a mixer right at the top. Bottom-Feeding microphone systems is rough. Yo...

That's the other reason I doubt the $27 solution works just like a studio. That's a Blue Yeti USB microphone famous for producing low volume, slightly hissy work.

Another variation on the test clip:

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/Test ... _Clip.html

Koz