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Everybody spends decades learning to ignore sounds that don't concern them. We tune them out. Ask anybody if their refrigerator makes noise and they'll say no. It does, but we tune it out and that works really well for us until we need to make a recording in the kitchen. "What's that buzz in th...

I will do my best to keep sound away from my microphone!

Unwanted sound, yes. Every recording technician has that phrase printed and mounted in a little frame on the wall.

Koz

I'm looking for a new microphone. You're looking for a cheap microphone (you said so) and we're all looking for one of those people to tell you how they did it. Recording in a noisy, echoey room is not easy for anybody and is widely called the Job from Hell by recording pros. We have several poster...

Headsets. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PCHeadset.jpg That particular Logitech headset has very good room noise suppression and reasonable voice quality, but depends on your soundcard. Work is using Logitech USB headsets and they work well, too, but they're more expensive. They don't use th...

It happens often enough that we have a FAQ posting.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... tml#pauses

Koz

Chris' Compressor allows expansion if the compression factor is negative.

I did not know that.
Koz

You have mischaracterized the show. It's slight voice interference to the wind performance, not the other way 'round. Even using some of the aggressive, brute force filtering tools I can't get enough back to tell what you said. So you're stuck with a reshoot. One of the people at work suddenly, for ...

I'm unclear what the goal is. Is the video comment just fluff and misdirection? You want to reach the most people with a sound file? That would be MP3. Copyright problems with MP3 have to do with making it which is licensed software by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Lame is work-alike, open source softwar...

No, not really. That's the result of the Loudness War where everybody knows you need to issue music as loud as possible in order to maximize sales. The trick is to make it sound half-way reasonable while you're doing that. The process is to reduce the loudness variations and change volume on the fly...

It's a software switch. When you plug your headphones in, nothing happens for a second while the system runs some routine or another. It's not instant and mechanical like the side of a Windows laptop. It works that way the other direction, too. Just the fact that there is some sound coming out of th...