Audacity Forum

Round up some kids and get them to sing it.

"Here's a story..."

Koz

Audacity doesn't have very good voice changing tools. Effect > Change Pitch is usually going to sound like Donald Duck if you push it further than a musical note or two.

"Make My Voice Sound Like..." is a frequent request.

Koz

you might be able to recover it manually.

Assuming there's room. Audacity can take several times the size of the show in storage while it's working. If you don't have enough room to rescue the show plus housekeeping, you're just going to go 'round and 'round like you did before.

Koz

it kept freezing every time I tried to recover it. It might do that if your computer fills up. Desktop > Go > Computer > Control-Click on the hard drive (mine is Macintosh HD) > Get INFO. Attached. Available: is important. It should be bigger than about 10GB to 20GB. This is assuming you're using t...

Last time I did this, the phone company offered a package of services at extra charge. One of them was Answering Machine.

From Memory:

Call Waiting
Call Forwarding
Conference Call
There was a fourth one......?
Answering Machine

Koz

You can leave the stylus weight exactly where it's supposed to be.

Did you have any trouble finding a 78 needle for your cartridge?

Koz

I think we should get the existing one working. You start writing checks when we run out or find something the existing one won't do. This recording thing isn't easy and the basics can be learned with almost any microphone. This P-Popping thing is a technique for running the microphone. Any micropho...

Audacity won't do real-time processing of a voice.

Keep looking.

Koz

You can probably get rid of a lot of those problems by selecting the "I" bar button. Upper left in the tool collection. That's the normal editing button.

View options should get you the view of all the tracks top to bottom.

Who's going to save a Project and close Audacity next time?

Koz

I'll be looking forward to upgrading my gear by the end of September Remember, I didn't say those words. I want you to get what you got working. There's nothing like developing bad recording habits and then you're horrified when the new microphone doesn't solve all the problems. So, no don't write ...