Audacity Forum

First, yes. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PianoG1Spectrum-650.jpg That's the piano note "G1" and all the overtones and harmonics that let you know that it's a piano. Amplitude up along the left and pitch increasing left to right along the bottom. I use this illustration to show people...

Further back? House power? Shut everything down to zero. Unplug and replug the power for each device, computer and monitor a couple of times. Also any power strips and extension cords. The case of the computer and in some cases the shield of peripherals is connected to the third (ground) prong of th...

File > Export Selection.

Koz

The Audacity blue waves poop out at about -30 or so, so they don't tell you the whole story. The bouncing green sound meter goes down to -60 (on the left) and that's the range where your microphone works. 60dB to 0dB is a thousand to one. A very serious volume change. Dynamic (moving coil) microphon...

Are you using Yosemite? OS-X 10.10.x? Audacity won't fully support Yosemite until the next program release.

Koz

I reopened the file I'd been working on

The Project you've been working on. It's actually quite a number of files.

Koz

That is odd. Take a screen capture with Audacity (Shift-Command-3) or draw a box around Audacity (Shift-Command-4) and post it. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=72887 Have you done this millions of times before? In Audacity, you have blue waves and the green sound meter jumps w...

I know about 32 mono and 64 stereo. Those are the points where most people can not... quite... tell there's something "off." If you compare it with the original, then the jig is up. Several friends and I were experimenting independently with compression values. We met in the coffee shop an...

These are generic adapters or "soundcards." Some have microphone preamplifiers, some don't. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477 These are the problems people have been having, usually with lower-end microphone systems. You can get a good idea of the typical shortcom...

We did a review of adapter devices and I'm looking for it.
Koz