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Nobody's horrified at what you're doing yet, because where most people crash and burn is the room noise. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/EchoSample.mp3 This is a silly example, but nobody is going to pay money for an audiobook recorded in her mum's kitchen. People are horrified how much noise t...

That's the sample rate. The computer/device busts your voice up into 22 thousand digital chunks per second. In the real world that gives you a voice quality somewhere between AM radio and FM. 44100 is the voice quality of an Audio CD. You have to set that on the device capturing your voice — assumin...

Create a 3 to 5 second mono sound file that exhibits this behavior and post it here.

Koz

This is one of the devices I certified for perfect overdubbing. No delays.



The USB device headphones grab the live sound before the computer can get to it.

Koz

Natural sounds are made up of bunches of different tones at different sizes and times. These are the overtones and harmonics that let you pay a lot of money for a good instrument. But all the tones don't just add up. Some of them, in the natural order of things, subtract. If you manage to delete one...

"Q" is the Quality Factor of the filter. Broad, gentle, sloppy filters have a low Q. Tight, precise, accurate filters have a high Q.

Koz

NOTE - If the highest peak in the recording is a loud vinyl "click", your peak reading isn't meaningful. In other words, this technique isn't reliable with vinyl? I bet all my vinyl transfers peak at 0. That's not the music, that's where the cat hairs are. We also note your favorite recor...

Create a 3 to 5 second mono sound file that exhibits this behavior and post it here.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 49&t=72887

Koz

Do they all open in Windows Media?
Koz

When I do transfers, I use my commercial grade turntable, a Hafler preamplifier and a plain digitizer system. The Hafler has the physical volume controls and allows me to adjust each record as I go. No doubt that's what you're after. A very common complaint with the "convenient" USB transf...