Audacity Forum

There are posters cranking out quality voice tracks on H1, H2, H4, and H5. The obvious shortcomings are needing to transfer the works to the computer and batteries. I've never used it, but my H1n will run from a wall charger. Alternately, you can trade out the computer with one that doesn't make any...

read somewhere that that can give the echo effect if it's set too high. You may have read the one I wrote. Talking into a wine glass or milk jug. You have to make that stop. This is where having a moderately echoy room, a noisy computer, and a USB microphone is a deadly combination. Many directiona...

And the hits just keep oncoming. Headsets, matching headphones and microphone, tend toward "cellphone sound" and for a lot of the same reasons. Their job is to record your voice in challenging environments, so they deliver "communications sound" no bass and tight, restricted, tel...

Still. That connection to the soundcard does work with the proper cable. Low volume can be helped with the Windows Mic Boost setting. USB microphones do have their problems. There is no using two or more. You're stuck with one. Audacity will only record from one thing at a time and a USB microphone ...

a bit of distortion and reverb. That can come from two places: Windows Enhancements and sound processing left over from Zoom, Skype or other chat app. Make sure your chat programs are really closed and not sitting in the background waiting for a call. Restart the machine and don't let anything star...

You may not need the fancy software. This is a clean, clear recording without any of the oddball echo sounds. Now we need to deal with the room sounds. ACX calls this Room Tone. I can make you pass ACX standards, but with stiff noise reduction. How far away is the computer from the microphone? Do yo...

That's not dreadful. You plug into the Mic-In, not the Line-In, and you need a special cable. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/UnbalBalAdapter.jpg Note the 1/8" plug has one black band and not two. This is a devil's adapter. https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=96907 You c...

The top track (with ALL THE IMPORTANT STUFF) was turned to silence. I think you may have the order wrong. I think the show was already toast and that was the instant that Audacity chose to update the screen. I should have exported things as wav/mp3 WAV. You can't edit MP3 without sound damage. If y...

Have you ever recorded your voice before? It can be a surprise. People still rent quiet, soundproofed studios for a reason. There's a joke that I can tell you how big your room is by analyzing the echoes in your voice. You don't have to actually be in a bathroom to sound like you're recording in a b...

I don't want the sound of the first track to be in the recorded track. There's a trick to that. For overdubbing, you need to be recording from a physical thing. Something you can reach over and touch. In this case, my black UM2 on the left is a physical thing. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pi...