Audacity Forum

I have a decent sound card with 'line in' capability. What scared me is packing all of that information (three mics to mixer to sound card to pc) into that tiny cord. There are still no quality awards given to PC Soundcards. They have to live in an insanely hostile environment. It's too hot and if ...

"Do you have foam balls?" "Not last I looked, no. I do have a dead cat, though" I was skeptical about the tiny tabletop mic stands... I wasn't sure how much white noise this would produce, and I assumed it would be fairly easy to remove something as constant as a slight hum withi...

This might be a good time to connect your H4N to the computer and copy the work fresh from the machine's memory. Do you remember how you did that? If you post a short clip for us to chew on, we're interested in the original capture , not anything that has been worked on already. The latest Audacity ...

One other stability point. Never reuse filenames. If you edit a clip, export it as a whole new name. Do Not try to save the edit in place of the original file. If anything happens to your computer during that replacement process, you have no show. Both the original sound file and the replacement are...

live headset monitoring

Probably not. This is a headset:
http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PCHeadset.jpg
That's a matched set of headphones and microphone.

You probably need connections for headphones. Left and right ears, full stop.

Koz

I have no spells for this. The only people who can pull a clear voice out of trash are the writers of TV shows such as CSI. It's a theatrical gag they use when they can't get the story to work any other way. There's actually an internet joke about this. CSI does impossible tricks with sound and pict...

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/peaveyUCA202Lenovo.jpg As near as I can tell, the only difference between the two is the paint job. The UCA device provides a very good quality stereo connection to your computer. Both directions. That illustration is from the overdubbing tutorial and features ...

Besides the use of low-end equipment and the quality loss that comes with it I don't agree. What usually happens is someone uses low-end equipment and then screws everything else up, too and blames it on the equipment. I once recorded a temporary voice track for a television commercial... on my lap...

Everybody always leaves out the room. If you record in a kitchen, it will always sound like this: http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/EchoSample.mp3 Good, directional microphones will pick up mostly the person talking, but all the microphones are going to pick up the room reverb and echoes. That's ...

It's the live sound through the computer delays and processing. The only time you get "real" Playback and Record at the same time is during musical overdubbing, and that requires an already existing sound file. That and the bouncing sound meter should give you terrific confidence. If you h...