Audacity Forum

this one sounds a bit distorted That's because it is distorted. The track has peak clipping or limiting. See at 19.7 seconds, all the wave tips are exactly the same height? Screen Shot 2020-11-23 at 9.14.57 AM.png The bouncing sound meter isn't measuring high volume sounds because there aren't any ...

Nice sounding recorded phone call. Thanks. Denise and I are ringers. We're both broadcast professionals. Denise was, I think, Music Director at WWDC when they gave Howard Stern his first real broadcast job. We're both in reasonably quiet rooms and we're both wearing headphones. This is not our firs...

You guys keep saying you can't record on Macs I said you can't record on Macs using internal, native services. I've been using Soundflower for years and iShowU. I didn't know about Loopback. you CAN record phone calls using Loopback. Good to know. How? One hitch in Audacity's gitalong is the need t...

I have a GLS Audio ES-58. It's a lower cost Shure SM58 but with higher volume.

Koz

There is a Desperation Method. Set up the Zoom call hands-free and then record the room. Start your phone on Sound Recorder and place it on the table between the computer and you. The quieter your room is and the better speakers your laptop has, the better the recording. Don't forget to turn the rin...

separate audacity windows open Did you try it? I think you can have two Audacity windows open on the same show, but not doing two different recording sessions. Audacity makes good use of the computer's single Play and single Record service. As far as I know, it can't make up new pathways, and it ca...

Why is 0 dB 100%? I think that's convention. 100% is pretty obvious, as loud as you can go, etc, 0dB is where the digital system runs out of numbers on the way up. It's digital clipping or overload. The digital system stops following the show. I thought a jet was like +70 dB? See my weaselly words:...

I glanced over this. The blue waves represent the vibrations of air at, for example, your mouth. Higher and lower air pressure as you speak or sing. If you plug a graphing meter into a microphone and sing into it, it would show you the blue waves. It gets magic because some people speak with uneven ...

First off, as I learn more about audio, I hear everyone talk about things like "-6dB" and yet I don't know what units or the significance of the whol -1.0 to +1.0 scale is when I record. The blue waves are in percent and there is a relationship between dB and percent. Three important ones...

Nothing wrong with the UM2. I like mine. The microphones could use work. I read a review on the Pyle and it wasn't encouraging. The reviewer said it worked reasonably well after he went inside and upgraded the microphone wiring and the noise improved when he converted the wiring from unbalanced to b...