Audacity Forum

You are warned that a very common problem is somebody reads an entire audiobook and then, when it fails compliance, tries to "clean it up" in post production. ACX actively discourages use of clean up tools. They rarely get clean enough. You can get the most bang for the posting by not help...

Windows Media Audio is a proprietary format. Most people use MP3. Those play anywhere. You are warned that Both Windows Media and MP3 are end-path formats. They are designed to be the last step in a production process. There is no "open an MP3 or WMA and use it for production (or conversion)&qu...

Clip Fix is another fancy English tool. It uses careful analysis of the waves before and after the damage to try and reconstruct what the wave would have been had there been no damage. It's makin' it up. ~~ I do something similar. I have a very high quality turntable, stylus, arm and preamp. I will ...

You can buy respectable USB sound mixers and not use the UCA202. I would stick with plain stereo and not fall to the siren call of 4, 8, and 12 channels of digital audio. Those are harder to record than you would think. There are odd rules for going over two-channel stereo. If you make sure your mix...

The problem comes when you combine molecular tiny microphone signals in the same box with USB. In the case of the mixer working into a UCA-202, the mixer is carefully boosting the microphone signal and is supplying much higher line level stereo sound, not microphone level. So the show at the USB ste...

It occurs to me to be clear that you can use the Effect Send to send a show mix to the second recorder. It doesn't have to be just voice or just crowd. It will be mono, though, so if you're producing a stereo show (I like stereo crowd. It sets the environment like nothing else) Effects Send won't ma...

How are you trying to do it? There is another poster that managed to crank out very clear recordings (attached). Oddly, he thinks they're damaged and wants to equalize them too. As I posted to him, acting is a very big part of this. It's not just compression and Eq. I bet they shot those people abou...

Yes, it's been through post production to make them all match and maybe a little level shifting and possible compression, but the object is natural voices and they pretty much hit it. One of the advantages of top quality microphones and capture environment is little or no noise. That means whole equ...

The commercial features correctly recorded sound. All those people sound like that if you walked up to them on the street. That's not to say it's easy. If I tried hard enough I bet I could find the professional recordist who shot the voices. I didn't see a microphone, so it was probably done with a ...

Yes. Crash Record. In analog land, you back up the tape to where you want to start and smash the red record button to start recording from that point. Audacity doesn't have Crash Record. You can have Append Record with Shift-R. That will take up recording at the end of the current track. You can sel...