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Koz

People make products that work with Skype sound management to produce clear, high quality recordings of both sides. The Pamela upper two products will do that. http://www.pamela.biz/en/products/ There are other programs, but be careful of getting locked into MP3 sound files (ratty editing) or progra...

the problem started Sunday.

...when you ran short of drive space....

Koz

I raised my voice and even shout to achieve the effects needed sometimes Don't raise your voice or shout. The grownups have vocal tricks where they change the stress in their voices to simulate shouting and so on. One of the recent posters wanted to know the best way to speak a gunshot blast in her...

Keep in mind I'm a creative type My first experience with a hard-core creative type was sitting around a coffee table drinking coffee and discussing a job. He was fiddling as he thought about the tasks. When he left, the junk on the coffee table looked far better and more harmonious than it did whe...

Is it possible you're running out of drive space? What's the size of your hard drive and how much is used? We need actual numbers, not "enough." Are you using local internal drive and not USB or network drives?

Koz

Reinstalling Audacity doesn't reset Audacity. To get a complete reset, reinstall and when the installer asks you if you want to reset the preferences (or something like that), say yes.

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Koz

Another bit of bad news. Audacity Projects do not save UNDO, so there's no such thing as Edit > UNDO until everything comes back.

Koz

Sometimes third-party utilities can destroy Audacity files. There's a virus protection program out there which likes to do that as well. The audacity files inside the _DATA folder do not follow conventional naming practices, so sometimes they don't survive a good "cleaning." Did Audacity c...

Line level and guitar level are cousins of each other. Microphone level is super tiny. You usually can't fudge that, but I got almost line level once with a friend's electric guitar by hogging down very hard on a chord. But I wouldn't want to play like that all the time. You're probably not expectin...