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You have a Special Application. That puts you outside the "cheap as dirt microphones that millions of people bought." If someone sent me to a track to do background sounds, I'd bring the Shure SM58 (or other similar type microphone), my attenuator plug-ins, the Zoom H4 and most important, ...

Yes. Nyquist programming about which I know nothing.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqui ... _Reference

Koz

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Koz

I was designing a call-in transmission test bench and I would have killed to be able to do that. Sadly no. Audacity will not perform tricks while recording. It's the same reason we can't apply filters and effects during record.

Koz

It used to be a hardware switch. The headphone socket would interrupt the speaker sound, full stop. Now it's a Software Controlled Transition, so all the moons and stars have to line up exactly right to work. My machine does it that way. When I plug in headphones, the machine decides whether I'm wor...

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... to_cd.html

Koz

Starting with the song in Audacity? File > Export: WAV (Microsoft). That's Audacity's default high quality sound file format. When you name it, try to avoid punctuation marks and dates. After Export, right-click the file > Open With: Windows Media. You can probably drag the file into Windows Media. ...

Also see trying to mic a rock band. If I bought a mic with a much higher SPL would that help this problem? Sorta....... Yes, using a microphone with a higher Sound Pressure Level rating is a very good step, but then you have to keep it from overloading the microphone preamplifier—the next step in th...

It could be the H/M/L sensitivity thing, but when you're in a sound field loud enough to make your jacket move, I don't think that's going to help.

Koz

You are overloading the recorder. I was a party to an ABC Wide World Of Sports the day they sprinkled cameras around the racetrack and tried to cover an automobile race that way. They couldn't use the cameras right next to the track because it was so loud (how loud was it?) it was so loud it would v...