Audacity Forum

Macbook Bro. I just got a new name for my laptop. "Hey. That's my MacBook Bro, bro." I would have recommended the UCA202 because that's the one I use. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/peaveyUCA202Lenovo.jpg You got the red one, right? Cool. It appears as "USB Audio CODEC" ...

I didn't know MacPros came with internal mics. On the newer laptops, there is a setting in Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input > Internal Microphone: [X] Use Ambient Noise Reduction. Try that on a test interview before you get in a car for that President Obama meeting. Typically, t...

The picture is of my noise removal settings and the clip is post correction. Noise Removal works in two steps. The first step is to get a "profile" by drag-selecting a portion of the show with noise and no performance or other noises. The second pass is the actual reduction. I uses the fir...

parts from within one song We can cut a segment or selected notes from the middle of a song, but we can't split out the violins from a mixed orchestra. Open Audacity and File > Import all the songs. They will appear one atop the other and try to play at once. When they all arrive, File > Save Proje...

Noise Removal isn't the miracle drug that everyone wants it to be.

First recording? It sounds like you're trying to do an interview across the room from the microphone. Even the big kids can't do that.

Describe your microphone, computer, the room, etc.

Koz

Many sound cards (but certainly not all) can do the mixing you want internally. But most not in real time. This is a serious problem with people overdubbing. "How come my voice has an echo or is delayed in my headphones." The three hardware solutions in the overdubbing tutorial were revie...

AudioTechnica is the inexpensive, second-tier manufacturer. Good but not great. One of the shortcomings of headphones is the ability to listen to them for hours. I can't stand to listen to the "standard" Hollywood Sound headphones before my ears start bleeding. So what you look for is clos...

How much is it worth to you?

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Koz

Bass-Cut,Treble-Boost See? I'm not the only one. Whatever you're using for speakers or headphones needs to go in a box in the barn. When the song gets here it's bass heavy, honky and muffled. If you can't hear that, then that's the next thing to fix. You can't mix if you can't hear what you're doin...

One other thing that happens in home recording is "Room Tone." That's the noise that the room makes when you shut up. Studios don't make any noise. Your house probably makes all sorts of little refrigerator/air conditioner/traffic noises. This may create problems in post production because...