Audacity Forum

That's because you don't have "essing." You just have a really bright microphone, and you should try to solve this at the voice/microphone stage, because fixing it in Audacity in awkward and never sounds quite perfect. First thing I did was Analyze > Spectrum and I found an artificial &quo...

Most people smooch together MIDI with sound. They're very different. MIDI is machine control. Push this piano key and hold it for this long. It doesn't care if the key makes any sound or not.

Koz

If you use the computer to tell the keyboard what to do with a sequencer program, then the keyboard itself is creating the sound and you can adapt the Stereo Line Out of the keyboard to your computer, or do what I did and adapt the keyboard Headphone output. On most Windows laptops, this involves a ...

If you hear a click or pop, does it appear at a different place each time you play the clip?
Koz

I didn't hear anything out of the ordinary at the word "heard." It appears perfectly clear. I expanded the blue waves and didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Does it still sound funny if you listened on a different player or computer? We'd be very far ahead if you filled out the infor...

Unlike a video editor, Audacity can't do that on one track. But we can do it on two tracks. Tracks > Add New and create a new blank track underneath the first one. Then copy and paste your secondary sound into the second track. Then use the Time Shift Tool to push the second sound so it starts when ...

Condenser mics tend to boost these higher frequencies for "crisp" vocals. Or, they're more sensitive to them. On a dynamic microphone (SM58), your voice has to horse around a spring diaphragm connected to a coil of wire suspended in a stiff magnetic field. On a condenser microphone, your ...

almost 32 dB amplification is of course not tolerable. Exactly correct. The original performance capture is failing. Koz could pay you another visit... Koz hasn't paid the first one yet. We had a nice chat over the electric telephone and we discussed what could be broken and the direction of troubl...

I'm going with no. I'm guessing by the long hang time on the forum, nobody else knows, either.
Koz

we generally advise, strongly, that you start out life with a clear, even recording of good volume. Attached is a picture I prepared for another posting that has almost perfect voice sound levels. If you play back the work and it sounds like this: http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/EchoSample.mp3 ...