Audacity Forum

I think I Englished wrong there, to coin a verb. can I pet it? Carefully. With gloves. So it's just a complex as it needs to be. I'm a fan of making the computer follow the application. Audacity runs on modern versions of all three hardware platforms, so we're gun shy about someone having troubles m...

And that illustrates why we want "push this button to set levels and the problem goes away" similar to Effect > Amplify > OK, but for a multi-track show. Also note that if your default is 16-bit rather than 32 (like most of my stuff), this process will probably destroy your mix. There's a ...

Audacity is a simple audio program and it really likes running on simple computers. Computers with two different audio devices is not simple. Does it still do that if you unplug the FireWire interface?

Koz

Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Recording: [X]Overdub and deselect everything else.

Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Devices > Recording: should be your microphone or audio Input. It should not be Stereo-Mix or What-U-Hear.

Koz

It seems there should be a predictable setting. The reason the company is so particular about that value is because it's typically not. Live vocal performances can have wild swings in peak and RMS values. If you're used to listening to the radio or purchased performances, those have been heavily pr...

When Audacity exports your final work it just adds up all the tracks. And yes, if you decided to play all twelve parts of an orchestra "safely", you're likely to seriously overload the final show. The only current work-around is select all the tracks and keep Amplifying to a negative numbe...

I can suggest a little piece of this. If the show is running too fast (high pitched music) it could mean the work was transferred from the camera too slow. To get a speeded up action in a movie, we slow down the movie camera. Audacity is expecting a sample rate of 48000 (video sound rate) and the ca...

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Why do the instruments on "Full Blood Country," sound so much better? It's like night and day. Did you mic them different? Koz

You're all the voices on "When did you stop lovin' me?" right? Koz