Audacity Forum

So you're recording Stereo-Mix or one of the other techniques for self-recording? Many machines send your sound all the way out to the analog sound card and bring it all the way back in again for recording. That means all the Windows sound "enhancements"—both directions—are a part of the s...

The default goal setting of Effect > Amplify is maximum or 0dB. If you run the tool on the whole show, the amount of boost required is the size of the highest peak (attached).

-5.3dB in this case.

Koz

There is a fighting chance to recover a non-edited recording. Those snippets are still in a rational order created by Audacity. The minute you edit or change the work, you're fried. There is no simple order any more and the AUP file is required to play the work.

Koz

The UCA202 has a headphone connection. Plug headphones or earbuds in and switch the monitor to ON. That will let you listen to the UA202 sound going both directions, record or playback. Make sure the little volume control is up. Play the minidisk. If you hear nothing, then the minidisk is not playin...

How are you Inserting Silence? Generate > Silence is the only "real" show element. All others are phantoms and are treated oddly by Audacity tools. For example, if you Time Shift a show later in time with the idea of making it play some time later after you push Play in your music player, ...

You hit the jackpot. TV running in the background. I know spy movies always do that to keep people from listening in to a conversation but it's not theatrical. That works. Like in this case. That TV is going to screw up the noise and loudness processing tools.

Koz

given to me as an Audacity project. I'm taking you at your word. You have an AUP file and a _DATA folder with a ton of little sound snippets in it? That's an Audacity Project. That will blow out to the original multiple audio tracks with labels and other production environments (but not UNDO). WAV ...

Any thoughts? Is it too late to turn down the job? WAV filesizes have a natural limit of 2GB or 4GB depending on how you count. My stand-alone WAV sound recorders all capture to the 2GB limit and start a new file. So if you went over that limit anywhere in the process, that could be where your miss...

You may benefit from both. Gentle Noise Reduction to give Noise Gate less work to do.
Koz

im sure they will blame my PC or something else. It is a system problem. Everybody contributes. Some people get the whine on some computers and some don't. There is a standing joke that you can change the whine but you can never get rid of it. If you change any physical condition, the whine will ch...