Audacity Forum

Just checking to see if anyone has had extensive experience dealing with this kind of audio hiss on their files. Well, yes. You can't actually take hiss out of a show. Noise Removal works by being given a "taste" of the noise by itself — the profile step — and then it generates notches an...

DP-008EX? How long have you had it? Can you give us a "I like this" and "I don't like that" list? Does it support overdubbing and sound-on-sound? Anything you use for field recording is going to have problems, particularly with that many options. For one example, I do recordings...

Live shoot with two (or three) different people in a noisy environment is the assignment from Hell. Even if you have all the right equipment, super directional, hand-held microphones, good recorder, etc, it's impossible to catch both voices, particularly if they like to interrupt each other. If it's...

This is the origin of the phrase "Never do production in MP3." The first time an MP3 (or most other compressed file type) is made it creates the original show plus some cleverly hidden sound damage. The second time you do it, the software compresses the show plus the damage . Now the damag...

Not a fan of the DP-008EX?

I am and we need to talk about that, but if you're planning on mixing to Apple Earbuds, nothing we say is going to help you.
Koz

It was pointed out to me multiple times that for the effort and time, I could have bought a $25 shock mount. Also know that the SM58 is a directional microphone. It listens from the front, less from the sides and very little from the back. It also has a haystack hump and low droop. The haystack hump...

You can't remove noise from dialog — the actual words — without the dialog becoming damaged. The "Smoothing" setting in Noise Removal controls how Audacity "goes around" dialog when it's removing noise. If you have well-behaved noise like quiet air-conditioning, you may not notic...

AUP is not a sound format. The AUP file is a text file that tells Audacity want to do with all that stuff in the _DATA folder of the same name. Both the AUP file and the _DATA folder make an Audacity Project. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/audacity_projects.html Exporting a WAV file of your sh...

I wandered off there. The SM58 is the bullet-proof, rock band microphone that sounds OK, and the G-Track is the studio microphone which sounds better but is less physically robust.

Koz

This is an SM58 in a home-constructed shock/vibration mount. Those are US Postal Service rubber bands. http://www.kozco.com/tech/pvcShockMount/shockmount.html The step up to a higher quality microphone and mixer system is shocking, so as long as you stick with this sort of setup, you should be good ...