Audacity Forum

Last step. File > Export and Audacity will mix everything down to one stereo show (unless you changed it). If you add the Lame software package, you can Export as an MP3. Audacity won't make MP3 by itself.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... .html#lame

Koz

That should have given you a bunch of AUP files and a bunch of similarly named _DATA folders, right? Make sure you move them in matched pairs if you have to move them at all. Double click on one AUP and then double click on a second one. They will probably open in two different Audacities, right? Se...

Is there a step where you can tell the system what speed to burn the CD? The next step is to burn at a very much reduced speed and you just have to wait for it. Maximum Possible Burn Speed is usually a bad idea. That gets you into the Speed Race between makers and they sometimes sacrifice quality fo...

You hit the trifecta. Long distance, echoey room and noisy recording. You missed one: overload/clipping. Given you're not likely to have long distance and high volume overload at the same time, so there is that. I know it's popular to give Tape Hiss a single proper name, but it's not one thing. Hiss...

You can still catch your machine between 1:00 am defrags and have problems, particularly if you have a full drive and it takes Windows a while to straighten it out. That's also assuming your machine is alive at 1:00 am. Of course, contrast that with no recovery at all on Linux and Macs. Yes, we trie...

Have you ever done a manual defrag on a Win7 machine? It never goes to completion. It automatically loops -- or at least mine did. You have to catch it when you think it's been through enough loops and just give up.
Koz

My concept of "essing" is a sound channel defect where instead of a real-life, natural "S" sound, the sound channel switches to something else (usually crashing overload, but not always). In my opinion, you can go a long way to solving the problem with a Noise Reduction-like tool...

How about not in that room. The hard wood paneling should give you good hollow echoes and sound "slap" almost no matter where you put the microphone or how directional it is. That's always going to sound like you're recording in the kitchen. On the other hand, if you had a nice acousticall...

Digital Audio requires that the sampling frequency be at least two times the highest sound pitch. So for 40KHz "audio", you would need a sampling frequency of at least 96000, not 44100, the Audacity default. If you're trying to pitch normal audio up that far, you also have to worry about t...

Of course you're not after incriminating evidence. Why would anyone want that?

Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Recording > Sound Activated Recording.

Koz