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You can't do volume analysis with a microphone, computer and Audacity. But if you hurry, you can do it with one of these.

http://www.radioshack.com/music-and-aud ... und-meters

Koz

MY customer wont have anything else than MP3. Yes, ACX AudioBook has that problem. It is highly recommended that you edit, prepare and save archive in high quality WAV and only produce the deliverable as a lesser quality MP3 copy as required. "Lesser Quality MP3" is one word. It's extraor...

Has mechanical noise I'm tryint to analyze.

You mean that pool filtration pump sound?
Koz

Attached a screen grab from my Mac. See the right-hand setting "Built-In Output?" What does yours say?
And which machine do you have?

Koz

DVDDoug is right. You plugged the cable into the wrong socket in back of the computer. The Blue socket is the stereo line-in. It may say so, or it may have the picture of a fan and arrow leading in like the middle connection here.



Ko

I know how this used to work. Multi-Channel audio interfaces would configure their interface in multiples of stereo rather than simple multi-channel. That's so if you're missing the special software or appropriate connection, the units would still work in stereo, sometimes multiple stereo channels, ...

record some youtube audio Probably not a good idea. That means the computer has to manage the YouTube audio and the Audacity recording, all in real time. Most people have a hard time making their recording rooms ("studio") quiet enough for good quality recording. Just leave the microphone...

It should be.

Can you give us your versions from that pink band above ^ ?

Can you, in actual fact, plug headphones into that TV socket and hear sound?

Koz

Lest we think SMPTE editing is a gift from the angels, remember it's only good for frame-by-frame editing. Accurate to the nearest 1/24 second in Europe. There's no shortage of video editors who would kill to be able to edit between video frames.

Koz

You get where we are going with this, right? The more work the keyboard demands the computer do, the more it's likely to smack into Audacity trying to do its job. The more stand-alone it is, the more likely you will be able to perform completely on the keyboard and just use Audacity to record and pr...