Audacity Forum

Are you an administrator on your machine? Apple (upper left) > System Preferences > System > Accounts > Koz: Allow User to administer this computer. Did you upgrade to Mavericks or buy the machine that way? There is a "garden faerie" thing that happens in Mavericks. During changes in point...

OK. I brought my MacBook Pro (10.8.2) on-line with Audacity 2.0.5 in a conventional install. Generate > Tone. I don't see (or hear) any stuttering, snapping or any other bad playback. I wondered what those flash beach balls were. They don't animate which is a little odd. The up side is apparently an...

That setting gives the recording companies a little room to fudge show volume without running into overload or damage. That said, I will probably never be able to directly cross an original Patsy Kline pressing with "High Energy Workout Volume 1." Past the genre of music shift, the volume ...

Are you on headphones? You can't live record with speakers running. Are you trying to self-record — are you trying to record YouTube or something on-line? Make sure your sound pathways are set up right. Self Recording establishes reverse sound pathways and if you do it wrong, it's a howling feedback...

I don't think you're going to split off the rain. I would fade in late and hope nobody notices the rain in the background. It's easy to do after everybody gets up to volume. Anything you do with Noise Removal is going to damage the violins and there's too much volume range for Noise Gate to do any g...

Chris's Compressor is designed to produce volume corrected works with wildly different volume originals. Try it manually on several very different clips. Last time I checked, you could include Chris in a Chain. http://theaudacitytopodcast.com/chriss-dynamic-compressor-plugin-for-audacity/ Here's a s...

Are you listening to MP3 damage? Export one piece as WAV (Microsoft) and see if it sounds OK. If it is your MP3 compression, what's the possibility you're trying to edit an MP3 file? When you do that in Audacity, the sound compression damage doubles from the original work. Another experiment, try ex...

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Koz

It should sound perfect. Are the blue waves reasonable — peaks at about 50% or so and the red recording meters at -6dB give or take? That's where they're supposed to be. Vinyl transfers are not supposed to directly compete with screaming loud commercial music products or iTunes downloads. Your vinyl...

I'm still curious what problem we're solving. If the sound settles down to the exact middle of the range when everybody shuts up, then you have a normal, good quality recording of someone's voice. If the sound quality shifts from recording to recording, then some other normal problem may be happenin...