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by kozikowski
Fri Sep 19, 2014 5:38 pm
Forum: Making Music with Audacity
Topic: Sounds of 2014 (experimental)!
Replies: 6
Views: 1433

Re: Sounds of 2014 (experimental)!

And this is where we find out if K-kewl is a real person. We don't normally accept blind submissions without some narrative.
Koz
by kozikowski
Fri Sep 19, 2014 4:12 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Fixing Volume in audio book chapters
Replies: 5
Views: 837

Re: Fixing Volume in audio book chapters

Consequently, volumes are all over the place. They should not be. You can use the Audacity volume meters to guide you when you're making a recording. Click on the right-hand side of the meters and pull sideways. They will get bigger and bigger and easier to see. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audac...
by kozikowski
Fri Sep 19, 2014 3:48 am
Forum: macOS
Topic: Audacity cannot play saved .aup after crash
Replies: 4
Views: 628

Re: Audacity cannot play saved .aup after crash

Audacity doesn't understand network delays. If its drives don't arrive perfectly and quickly it will assume they're broken.

Koz
by kozikowski
Fri Sep 19, 2014 3:31 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: I Need to Fix a Segment of Poorly Recorded Audio
Replies: 3
Views: 379

Re: I Need to Fix a Segment of Poorly Recorded Audio

I can get rid of a lot of the distortion through clever tricks, but the portion right at the end is hopeless because there's no show there to rescue (attached).

Koz
by kozikowski
Fri Sep 19, 2014 12:56 am
Forum: Making Music with Audacity
Topic: Sounds of 2014 (experimental)!
Replies: 6
Views: 1433

Re: Sounds of 2014 (experimental)!

The vocals are muddy. Compared to the sparkly orchestration, the voices are "soft" and fade into the background. I'm a great believer in not spending a billion dollars on microphones, but some of the less expensive ones do need a little help. Did you really hear that bass line when you mad...
by kozikowski
Fri Sep 19, 2014 12:46 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: IMPROVING ORCHESTRAL MIDI recording
Replies: 11
Views: 1486

Re: IMPROVING ORCHESTRAL MIDI recording

Your soundcard may be forcing the recording to go through twice. The very best thing that could happen is for "Stereo Mix" to capture the playback sound on the way out of the computer as a digital signal and send it right back in to the record system still as a digital signal. You would be...
by kozikowski
Wed Sep 17, 2014 4:05 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Big loss of quality when exporting to mp3
Replies: 5
Views: 1901

Re: Big loss of quality when exporting to mp3

All that is grand and expected. Now account for this: (Generally a big boost of treble and loss of bass, as well as other artifacts.) I would guess someone recording voices-over and recording What My Computer Is Playing instead of My Microphone could get that. Depending on the configuration of the c...
by kozikowski
Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:05 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Big loss of quality when exporting to mp3
Replies: 5
Views: 1901

Re: Big loss of quality when exporting to mp3

I'm recording intros and outros for podcasts. For the last 24 hours, or you've been doing this since 2012 and it just started doing this? I get a good sound and mix and export to mp3 I'd probably start by exporting to WAV and see if the same thing happens. If it does, that clears all the MP3 multip...
by kozikowski
Tue Sep 16, 2014 5:44 pm
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: Editing Audio with .1 millisecond accuracy
Replies: 4
Views: 1257

Re: Editing Audio with .1 millisecond accuracy

One of the things that can go wrong is acceleration distortion. In The Real World, the tone is not going to start and stop neat, orderly and clean like that. The rise wave of the first cycle and the fall wave of the last are going to generate infinite frequencies. Typically, this sounds like a tick ...
by kozikowski
Tue Sep 16, 2014 6:14 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Tracks on LP
Replies: 4
Views: 483

Re: Tracks on LP

File > Export will always give you one long file. File > Export Multiple should give you separate sound files.
I don't know exactly where you got stuck, but that's a good possibility.
Koz