Audacity Forum

Since this is a Mac, you can use SoundCheck® to push all your music toward the same volume. Attached.

I want you to narrate my postings. Please see attached. That thin blue streak left to right is supposed to look more like these: http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_record.jpg http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_playback.jpg Your voice, while perfectly pleasant to listen to, is so wimpy lo...

If you're using a USB device, plug in the device and then start Audacity, not the other way around. Audacity looks for sound device when it starts, so start it last. If that isn't it, then we need to find out what you're doing ... in detail. It's super difficult to record from a telephone or a cellp...

How did you save the work? MP3?
Koz

Any truth to that? Yes. We warn people to only get Audacity from the certified web site, too. And don't pay for it. This one is almost exclusively about programming isn't it. It may seem like that because people post that they want to do insane and oddball things, but Audacity is intended to be an ...

Most musical instruments have not only the note they are playing, but harmonics and overtones, too. That's what keeps a high-end violin and a crappy one sounding different on the same note. That also makes it terrifically hard to split instruments apart from each other. And that makes it nearly impo...

This is a perfect recording. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_record.jpg If you start going up higher than that on either the red sound meters or the blue waves, you run the risk of distortion and sound damage. People who use microphones also use headphones, not speakers. http://kozco.com/te...

We have no shortage of "Where can I get..." postings. You can use the search window at the top right of the forum to see if there is anything available here. Most people do blitzkrieg postings. Post a question, get an answer and get out. Badda-Bing, Badda-Boom. Other than that, you can Goo...

As much as everyone would like to put little pieces of sticky tape at the right settings, you really need to use the Audacity tools designed to set sound levels. When you record, you get a collection of blue waves and a bouncing red sound meter. The red meters should bounce in the -6 range and never...

The G-Track has a volume control. http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/GTrackUSB/ One of the guitar people at work owns it and I borrowed it long enough to write the original Overdubbing piece. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/overdubbing/overdubbing-SamsonGTrack.html http://www.kozco.com/tech/audac...