Audacity Forum

I need to go back and remember how I made the popping noise. I have the project, but Audacity doesn't remember the effects settings or UNDO. Attached is the Project screen for AMRadio5. There's a lot going on and I didn't clean up after myself, so all the trials are still there. I do remember the co...

Macs don't natively record sound playing on the computer. To get that you have to install a third party software program such as SoundFlower.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... n_mac.html

Koz

My hat says engineer, not recording artist. Nobody would mistake those clips as anything but common, noisy AM Radio, and I can bore you stiff why they sound like that, but they are an element in your show. The worst task in those clips was getting the popping static to sound right. All our tools are...

The obvious solution is open each track in its own Audacity and drag tracks back and forth. Each Audacity environment has its own UNDO and effects management independent of the others. I would have killed to be able to do that.

Koz

And do make new sound files at each change. Do Not step on the old files. You should have the original shoot WAV files backed up to a second medium and then as many audio files of the same show as changes you made. VOChapterOne20140531-2006.wav How you do it is up to you, but that's one way to do it...

No that would be too much. You need something that will softly bend over the positive peaks and leave the negative ones alone. See: Class-A Modulator driven a little too hard? I think you're much more likely to have audio compressors producing what one engineer at WRC-AM called "That Robust AM...

We can do this, but maybe not this second. I'm more than even sure you're recording the wrong thing. I'm running out of moxie and need to go to bed. Don't give up.... zzzzzzzzz

Koz

You don't have to put the intercarrier whine in there. That's only if you have two stations too close together — say at night when they travel further. According to the script, there's only one station. It occurs to me that y'all may never have experienced the AM-DX thing when you listen intently to...

I just went through a multi-track, effects-heavy (mercifully short) show. Having only one applied effects list is almost unworkable. "Now that I got all the effects on track five settled, I have to back them all out so I can remove or change an effect on track one which predates track five.&quo...

Again, we'll ignore the reality of no civilization and therefore no popping. Remember, they used to send radio signals across the Atlantic using not very powerful equipment. They had the advantage of being the only ones doing it. With no storms, there's nothing to stop you.

Koz