Audacity Forum

You should start thinking about what to do if we can't clean up the voice.

Koz

wave wouldnt affect quality would it Audacity opens up a file as very high quality internal sound. Higher than WAV. When you get something you like, export to WAV. If you don't, the export may sound worse than it did inside Audacity. When you start with a compressed sound format like MP3, the sound...

It will be used for the skype call You said the magic words. Audacity and Skype do not get along on the same machine. It's not fun when two dominant sound programs start battling over a single set of hardware resources. We recommend software designed to "know" about Skype and how to deal ...

What kind of computer and which Audacity (all three numbers)?

20 hours working on this file

How long is the show?

Is this your first show like this?

Koz

Do you have Windows set to Auto Update? Windows can be set to automatically make system and security updates in the background. This occasionally leads to unpleasant surprises.

Koz

Oh, sorry. I didn't recognize the symptoms. You made a voice recording trying to record both sides of a conversation. Personal Recorders only capture your voice, not both sides. The far side is recorded as very low level, highly distorted, echo cancellation trash. It's not recoverable into speech. F...

Oh, right. [smacking head] It's not a USB adapter.
Koz

You're already past the first level maintenance I can do, so we need to wait for a Windows elf.

Koz

You can be a correctly designed effect and still not be supported in Audacity. For example, if the effect requires serious graphic management, that's going to sail right out of the running.

Koz

How big is the room? USB has a length restriction. We had one conference room which required the wall-powered USB Hub trick half-way along between the conference room table and the actual computer. This effectively gives two USB cable restrictions end to end and it was enough for reliable operation....