Audacity Forum

Did you write the script for that sound clip? You may find that written works don't always make good shooting scrips. The audiobook people run into this. When you're reading a book, you don't have to stop and take a breath (although people who write without breathing in mind are sometimes hard to re...

Talking into a milk jug? That's voice processing. You may be making that. What are your Noise Reduction settings? Post a short sound test. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html Read down the blue links. They're very short and address common mistakes. Do Not Apply any effect...

Is this your mixer? Screen Shot 2020-09-25 at 6.20.51 PM.png Before you get your forehead even more bloody: Basic troubleshooting tells us to follow the signals down the pathway rather than plucking it out of the middle with no context. Do you get the SSL bouncing sound meter when you speak? Can you...

There's another direction to this. Audacity doesn't get its sound from the microphone. It gets it from Windows. Drill down to the Windows sound control panels and see what they have to say. You may be able to set the recording volume there and have it stick. after recording begins That is most unusu...

Behringer UM-2, I love my UM2. That's it in my test voiceover studio. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MBP_StarbucksStudioShoot-500w.jpg all types of errors happens. From a "0 success" to a "-9999 Unanticipated error" Writing down the errors is a darn good start. Do you u...

The object of the latency correction is to never use the Time Shift Tool again. If you perform in time with the backing track (and everything else goes OK), your performance will come out in perfect sync, automatically, as many different instruments as you wish (up to the power of the computer). Wit...

One is digital and the other analog. Audacity will not change the volume of a show that arrives as a digital source. It is assumed that if you digitized the show wrong, it's going to stay wrong no matter what the settings are. If the sound is too hot for production, you're supposed to record it on i...

The top track would be your "backing track" or guide track. You're supposed to listen to that while you sing or perform. Anything that requires a microphone also requires that you use headphones. The simplest process is jam your headphone against your microphone. https://www.kozco.com/tech...

Do you use iCloud or other on-line storage?

Koz

I'm getting constant crashes

You push play and Audacity vanishes?

Koz