Audacity Forum

If Audacity can't figure out how to play a song, it will play it with no de-compression. If you divide the chirp duration into the expected duration of the song, that's the percent compression. You can get iTunes to create a WAV or MP3 version of the song and transfer that. That may not work if you ...

I am not really in the need to being studio quality

The phrase is "professional quality."

I don't need professional audio. I just need clear sound at good volume and no distortion or noise.

Koz

it will seem kind of weird being on camera with a big huge microphone That doesn't bother me as much as getting a good sound track. and see how it goes. And see how it goes melding them together in your video editor. Did you figure out how you were going to do that yet? Given that your whole USB mi...

Got one. This is from a New York Times video. Note that little black thing in his cleavage (scroll down)? That's his lavalier microphone. That doctor is narrating the whole front half of the video with that thing. http://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000004027097/hollywood-in-the-operating-room.h...

..Koz beats me again!

I bet I can type faster than you can.

Ready....set.....Go!

Which simple video editor do you like?

Koz

So to bring this home, all of these variations are done in a video editor. If you elect not to do it that way, pick a nice, quiet, well behaved room with no echoes and use the camcorder built-in microphone. I had a storage closet at work I used to use for this. lots of cardboard boxes and no echoes....

Audio Technica AT2020USB Missed that. That means you're pretty much forced to announce from a desk and hope your computer doesn't make very much noise. USB microphones are limited to one USB cable separation between the microphone and noisy computer. Some AudioBook people find that the extra comput...

How can I record video with my camcorder, link up my mic, & use this software at the same time. That's where you get good with your video editor software. Audacity isn't going to help a bit there. We don't do video. You shoot your video with your camcorder and separate, high quality sound with ...

Condenser microphones require phantom power to do anything. It's like unplugging a toaster. However, you can have the wrong phantom power. They're not all 48v on pins two and three. Some are 12v. There is at least one commercially available mixer that tries to get away with that. If you look for whi...

Just as a sidenote, some evil software developers get bad software on your Windows machine by calling the file harmless-music.mp3.exe. Windows obediently hides the .exe part (exe is a windows program, not sound) and all you see is harmless-music.mp3 The first time you try and play the music, it load...