Audacity Forum

Just a quick note: acx want 192kbps on most files. Yes, but you should be making those from your WAV masters. Too many people think it's good to make the MP3 files as masters and then are horrified when the compression damage goes up on a second or third edit. I think one or two of our posters got ...

I have a Sony PCM-M10 digital recorder so I can get away from the computer. (Using a Shure SM58 with it.) I always keep the WAV files it creates.

We've been known to recommend a technique like that. I wondered how you got past the Windows bubbling voice.

Koz

Another note, peaks may shift around. The MP3 process rejiggers the composition of your sound and it's not shocking if the peaks move. You can open up your exported MP3 and Effect > Amplify (don't apply it, just look at the numbers). That will tell you where the peaks ended up on the client delivera...

You could post a ten second or so mono WAV file here so we can hear it. We may be able to recommend specific corrections.
Koz

You seem to be, yes, after a little push. Effect > Normalize: [X]Normalize to -3 [X]Remove DC That's a minor volume shift. That brings the blue wave peaks up to -3. After that, I measured the silent area just after "Part One." That comes in about -62 or so. The overall RMS (volume) is meas...

Be careful with the stereo features. I understand they only work with ASIO.
Audacity doesn't natively support ASIO.

Without ASIO, you can get two tracks in Audacity, but they're the same. The microphone is just duplicating the left and right.

Koz

Official name "Append Record."

Koz

Do you get the light on the MUTE button? It flashes when the microphone is muted and on steady when the microphone is working.

Audacity gets microphone services from the computer. So if Windows doesn't know the microphone is there, Audacity will never find it.

Koz

I think I’ve been constructing a lot of parts with too narrow a dynamic range.

What was the goal again? If it was to recreate the effect of a live performance, most recordists would just as soon live performances didn't have quite so wide a dynamic range...

Koz

Thunder and earthquakes enough to rattle the windows? Even if you can't hear it, either of those can push air around enough (vibration) to move glass which does make noise. So the window in the living room is an inaudible to audible converter. Vibrations down at the low end can be very entertaining....