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Here's a test I did on one of my microphones. If you do an analysis from 6.5 seconds to 9 seconds, you see that there is sound all the way to 20,000Hz. The display is relatively smooth with no big holes or peaks. It sounds crisp and clean. That's what's supposed to happen. Let's see what yours does....

That's a test you can get from any newsstand, 7-Eleven or Piggly-Wiggly. If the sound is open, sharp, crisp and clean, then the damage is something you're doing during editing. If it's muffled and muddy, then your microphone or preamp may be fried -- or you could be recording it at the wrong sample ...

Yes, but that tends to be less and less valuable as the show gets longer. There's no way to fine tune that bar. There are a lot of navigation tools. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/zooming.html http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/audacity_selection.html http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sel...

If you have a restricted recording environment (unlike a lot of our posters), then you can do whatever works. Can you get good bi-directional recordings using Google? If somebody asked me cold, I would say you would run into the same problems. There are some communications basics, they all take up t...

Audacity doesn't do anything in real time, so no. It's a post production editor.

Koz

nasty habit of taking over audio channels. It's only nasty if you want to muck with it. If all you want is reliable, easy communications between two computers, it's the world-class champ because of that habit. And because it's the world-class champ, it's the one most people are used to using if the...

There's another one. If you drag-select a part of the blue waves, Play will only play inside the selection.
Koz

Click anywhere in the blue waves when you stop and Audacity will pick up right from there when you start up again. SpaceBar will stop and start. That's the shortcut key. While playing, you can click in the time bar above the blue waves and the play will skip to there immediately. I don't understand ...

22050Hz. It doesn't have to be something running at a wacky sampling rate. That's just one of the things that can cause a show to sound like yours does. Slightly more muffled than we think is normal and no musical tones higher than a certain pitch. Tell you what. Set up like you always do to record...

True. But that only works if you never intend to sing or have a live microphone. Then headphones are required. Koz