Audacity Forum

This should be the donation page. http://audacityteam.org/donate/ When you Export MP3, the Options... clicker should lead you to a panel where you set MP3 quality. Audacity default is 128 which should be perfectly OK for a live, real time musical performance, for example, singing into a microphone o...

13"? Do you have connections that look like this? http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MacLineIn.jpg If you have a 13", then you may have one connection that is expected to switch between Line-In and Headphone Out. The switching is supposed to happen in Mac System Preferences, but I'm no...

Have you done this a million times before at different shows? Anything new about this one?

Koz

Or better, the voice, interstitial, and then the music. Koz

If it was an interference or tone that stayed around between words, then it's possible to use Noise Removal and help a little, but it's only there during the words, so there's no way to split them. But again from your earlier, if the music was crystal clear and just the voices got trashed, then that...

Also what "service" are you referring to? Windows Enhanced Services. What that does, similar to your cellphone on Conference Call, is sense long sustained notes or sounds. It assumes those are air conditioning noises and tries to get rid of them. It will destroy music. You might check if ...

Just curious if anything could even reduce the problem. No. That track is fatally damaged. To be clear, I don't think that Windows setting is the problem, unless maybe there was a music bed behind the voice. Still. As bad as that service is, it does treat voices pretty well. Anyway: http://manual.a...

I do not want to use any process that decimates the data.

Reduces by 1/10, or damages?
Koz

Neither Gain nor MUTE affect the blue waves. I assume you don't get the green sound meters, either?

Koz

That's similar to the effect you get when you leave Windows Enhanced Services (conferencing processing) running and try to record music. But the purpose of Enhanced Services is to make voices clearer by suppressing air conditioning noises and other environment interference. Your damage is backwards....