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In other words 8 times too low.

I stand corrected.
Koz

I may have said this already. The longest message thread on the forum, 39 chapters, is from Ian who just wanted to shoot audiobooks in his Hollywood apartment with a USB Blue Snowball microphone.

Koz

These are all connected. I can make a good recording out of your performance without the room noise. If you were much louder, the room noise would be irrelevant. That's why ACX has a robot monitoring submissions. People who can't hit noise, volume and overload specifications in the same recording ar...

Yes, I know. Diagnosing difficult problems on the forum is like trying to drive a truck through rubber bands on the steering wheel. You can get Audacity to wake up and tell you what the sound levels are without going into full record. Control-Click on the recording meters > Start Monitoring. If ever...

Attached (at bottom) is a screen shot of what your blue waves look like. This is what they're supposed to look like: http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/AudacityRecording-650w.jpg Also note my bouncing sound meter is around -6. Yours isn't. Yours bounces in the -24 range. Sound goes half and doub...

This is all I know about.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tr ... olbar.html

How sure are you that you need the back up feature? Usually, pause is enough. Most people want the foot pedal for hands-free.
Koz

And all that is only for your own personal satisfaction and happiness. The first time you try to use that information for something official, someone is going to ask you the model number and certification of the SPL meter you used and you're stuck. you simply stuck to explaining Audacity's capabilit...

When you recorded this clip, I hear you clearly walking across the floor and then start talking. I didn't hear any doors closing. The portion of the clip after 12 seconds features too much non-microphone noise. It sounds for all the world like a freeway recording I did a while back. http://kozco.com...

a foam windscreen/cover, also made by AT.

I can't find that. Can you point me to a web page?

The clip you posted was with the wind screen, right?

Koz

It's nice to think applying just the right compressor and limiter and everything will be just fine. Probably not. If you try to mix a home recording, an older commercial recording and a current release, the blue waves may be very similar, but the loudnesses of the performances may be off the charts ...