Audacity Forum

Trebor, I quite like the padding inside of that box but it all seems very close to the microphone and a tad rickety. That's not just foam. It's "Sonex" (I can't read the label)." Here it is. Auralex. Purpose-build foam for acoustic use. Everything behind that box, as rickety as it se...

Perhaps I'm too far away from the microphone You should be watching the sound meters in Audacity. The red recording sound meters will tell you the digital volume of the performance. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_record.jpg Note that the meters are very much bigger than the default meter ...

Headphone clunk. In case you were wondering why we go on about that loud clunk when you were managing your headphones? Some of our tools work on the loudest sound in the performance — only. That's OK when the loudest sound is you artistically stressing a portion of the monolog, but a good deal less...

We can generally do with maybe a half-minute or so of test monolog with silences so we can test noise levels and type of noise. It's not necessary to crank through a whole chapter of the performance. The forum system only allows one or two seconds of WAV, so 30 seconds is heaven. Koz

One more. I removed your email address. The forum is a magnet for software collecting email addresses for SPAM.
Koz

>>> Facebook Studio. See, that should have worked — at least I think so. There's enough sound deadening around the microphone to eliminate reflections and slap — and yet, there it is. That's pyramid-shaped shipping foam, Correct?. Not AcoustiFoam®. That may be some of it. You may be better served wi...

Can't argue with BBC 4 (or Steve). You can, but it's usually not fruitful. Fruit-free? Ah, Koz, you do make me chuckle. I'm sometimes introduced at work as "the one with the emails." As for the closet it was more about power than soundproofing. What power? It's a laptop and the Snowball i...

I know people who have made perfectly presentable recordings in their car. "Wait, I was using the conference room. How did you shoot that?" "In my Toyota." That means you can drive to somewhere quiet and record any time you wish. Probably not stand up unless you have a very unusu...

you need to be very careful to avoid lateral (side to side) movement. In the early days of Stereo FM, the stations all ran out and bought stereo microphones for their presenters. Then took them out. The effect is disorienting when the person with which you're speaking suddenly leaps to one side or ...

You hit the "Microphone Wall." Super convenient, all-in-one USB microphones don't scale well and they don't lend themselves to production management. It gets worse. Even if you do manage to smash two or more USB microphones into one show, If you talk long enough, they'll start to drift apa...