Audacity Forum

I have heard that "normalize" will also increase whats in the background or the lower sounds... Normalize and Amplify are cousins of each other. They both affect overall volume. They don't affect only quiet sounds. first you have to select an area with the background noise you wish to low...

How did you connect the cassette machine to the computer? You can't use the headset connection on the side of modern computers. Most times you need a formal stereo USB adapter or the USB services from a sound mixer. This is me recording the show from my analog stereo mixer. https://www.kozco.com/tec...

I don't remember all the spells, but open up a text window or shell and execute commands as "Super User" rather than normal you. That's what sudo is. That's short for Super User DO. Execute something as a Super User. You can quickly run some programs like that rather than closing the compu...

That's using the text-base commands instead of the graphic interface. You can do that on a Mac, too. Mine would look like this. Last login: Wed Aug 26 19:45:32 on console lucille:~ koz$ ls -al total 96 drwxr-xr-x+ 22 koz staff 704 Aug 26 19:45 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin 160 Aug 11 2018 .. -r-------- ...

That's my UM2 on the left.



I don't need the orange external drive or the coffee. Complete as it sits.

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You may be making this intentionally more complicated than it needs to be. If you have a good analog microphone, wired headphones, and a UM2, why do you need anything else? A UM2 will do bi-directional sound monitoring for overdubbing (select Direct Monitor).

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There is one oddity that's good to know. Plug everything together and let all the settings settle and only then start Audacity. Not the other way around.

Koz

Griffin makes a lot of different iMic variations and they don't all do stereo. Which one do you have?

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Do you have a goal? "Make my voice pretty".....and then what? Are you singing? Do you want to announce for podcasts? Audiobooks? Voiceovers? Each one can be slightly different. Yes, it is a good microphone, but you also need a good, echo-free, quiet room to put it in. You shouldn't ignore ...

Another nasty caution. These tiny USB Audio Adapters or similar aren't stereo, either. Most of them are mono microphone and stereo headphones.


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