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by kozikowski
Tue Feb 25, 2014 7:36 pm
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: Need Recording Advice
Replies: 8
Views: 3730

Re: Need Recording Advice

Dueling posts. Bare floor, ceiling and walls. That's not a problem is it? Get a piece of stiff cardboard, say 1M (3') on a side, throw a towel over it and jam it between the computer tower (or wherever the computer is) and the microphone. You can do noise suppression in real time. Put your headphone...
by kozikowski
Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:54 pm
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: Need Recording Advice
Replies: 8
Views: 3730

Re: Need Recording Advice

As an example, I once shot a passable voice job with a noisy laptop (and separate microphone) by putting the laptop on a chair with a blanket over it facing away from the job. It was a very large room, so the echoes had a long way to go before they came back. As Steve, above, distances can be your f...
by kozikowski
Tue Feb 25, 2014 11:53 am
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: Need Recording Advice
Replies: 8
Views: 3730

Re: Need Recording Advice

it seems to still linger under my voice when I am actually talking. Yes, that's what "smoothing" does. In order to keep your voice from going all honky and bubbly from noise reduction, Smoothing makes Noise Removal stop working during your words. The idea is your voice is supposed to be l...
by kozikowski
Tue Feb 25, 2014 7:55 am
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: Help a noob
Replies: 12
Views: 2867

Re: Help a noob

You seem to be doing the microphone and room thing OK, so you can probably sneak a little echo in there. Just on your voice and don't go nuts, the object is not for it to sound like a bathroom. There are other echo generators than the one in Audacity. You might also try a little Auto Tune. I don't r...
by kozikowski
Tue Feb 25, 2014 7:46 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Recover Deleted Material?
Replies: 3
Views: 535

Re: Recover Deleted Material?

The truly compulsive save safety projects as they go with the date and time (your option) in the filename. Use the ISO dates. Today is 2014-02-24. Do Not use slash marks in your filenames. If you have a computer "event" that destroys the current project, you can go back to the last one you...
by kozikowski
Tue Feb 25, 2014 7:43 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Recover Deleted Material?
Replies: 3
Views: 535

Re: Recover Deleted Material?

One of the ways that Audacity Projects can be set up is to not make "personal copies" of outside songs and sounds, but reference them or point to them when they're needed. This can be very, very fast and is beneficial on a large show, but the down side is Audacity needing to know exactly w...
by kozikowski
Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:34 am
Forum: macOS
Topic: MacBook Pro Bug
Replies: 10
Views: 2609

Re: MacBook Pro Bug

any attempt to use Built In Output results in a popping noise then a very distant, low volume, hollow sounding playback through only one speaker (on my 2009 MBP, on the right), if at all. So the switching fails. Built-In Output and Internal Speakers are the same thing. Software senses when you plug...
by kozikowski
Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:12 am
Forum: macOS
Topic: Vinyl playthrough works sometimes; other times just beeps
Replies: 13
Views: 2855

Re: Vinyl playthrough works sometimes; other times just beep

Here it is. http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103710 That will adapt the RCA cables from the back of the turntable to the Stereo Line-In of your Mac. You do need to be very careful because this thing puts mechanical strain on the connector in the Mac. The adapter itself and the ...