Audacity Forum

We warn people that Audacity is not a WAV editor but an audio production editor. Data sacrifices and deviations are tolerated in order to produce a pleasant sounding show. Scientists are routinely dismayed that sucking a show into Audacity and blowing the same show back out will not always produce a...

Yes, it should plug straight in, but I believe this is the device without a mixer. When you plug a microphone into Mic-One, it's only going to appear on the Left of Audacity's stereo show. Mic-Two appears on the right. You have to do all the channel reassignments and mixing in Audacity. In other wor...

A note on that shoot. I had to turn off all the room lights and use light from the windows to eliminate hum and buzz.

This stuff is harder than it looks.

Koz

How big is the room you're recording in? This microphone has little or no response for sound arriving at the sides -- it's a supercardioid -- but it does respond from the rear. You might want to put a quilt or blanket right behind the microphone to help suppress room echoes and tighten up your voice...

You understand when you clear these problems, the others are going to arrive? What was that noise in the background?

You may need consonant replacement therapy.

Hello, and welcome to my poh-cast."

I'll slip a "d" in the post for you.

Koz

This is your show with 9dB noise reduction and 300 smoothing. I used a serious noise chunk of the beginning of your clip as the profile. There is a snippet at the beginning and end with no removal to show the contrast.

Koz

The strong presence of 120 Hz could be your microphone listening to your compact fluorescent lamps or other AC powered devices in the area. You should cure this at the beginning because removing 120Hz with a notch filter inside Audacity could affect the low pitch quality of your voice. Try turning o...

Noise Removal is on a list to be changed to "Noise Reduction," because that's much more what it does. You may have just overused it. It's purpose is not to make your performance perfect. It can't do that, but it can help with a single, annoying noise like fan or air conditioning. It can't ...

I increased the right track by 5.5 dB then saved the file as flac.

Missed a step.
Drop-down Menu > Make Stereo Track.
Then the blue waves should match and the export should be correct.

Koz

Most Windows machines have a "device" called "Stereo-Mix," "What-U-Hear," or something like that. That "device" turns around the playback sound and makes it available to the recording services. If you don't have that (and some machines don't), then you're stuc...