Audacity Forum

There is no waveform. The blue waves in Audacity are a convenience created by Audacity for the benefit of the humans. The computer only knows the samples. It's certainly possible to have sound values at or near 0dB and create distortion or clipping in the final show -- assuming you insisted on using...

How are you hearing the needle touching the grooves? Are you listening to Audacity playthrough on your headphones? Do you really have a Line-In on your Windows laptop? Most don't. Most laptops have Headphone Out and Mic-In. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PCLaptopSound.jpg You're missing the ...

Yes but you may not want to. Audacity doesn't edit MP3. It imports MP3 into its own high-quality format and then makes a new MP3 when it's done. So you get double the compression damage. Import the track and then: Effect > Amplify > put -17.3 in the top box > OK. Audacity will reduce the loudness of...

Vocal Removal fails way more often than it succeeds. The list of rules goes forever. If Vocal Removal completely failed, then you may be using a mono, not stereo show. Many on-line sound tracks are produced in mono to save space and speed up and downloads. The fact that it came out of both of your s...

All Aggregate Device does is smash two devices together. Aggregate digital devices also tend to drift out of sync because the system can only use one of the two clock signals. Aggregate isn't the gift everyone thinks it is. Multi-track playback is notoriously difficult. I think the most convenient, ...

You are warned that most Windows laptops have a mono, not stereo Mic-In and the connection is very prone to overload and distort. Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Devices > Recording > Device. That's a good place to set where Audacity is to get its sound from. You can also use the shortcut drop-down ...

--- I'm wondering if it makes a difference who makes the AIFF file.---
Does not seem so.

Yes, it does. Only AIFF files from Audacity fail, right?
Koz

Welcome to the input-output mess. I wasn't able to get good recordings and also good production coordination and I was using unlimited resources and hardware. There's no problem recording the whole conference, you just can't be part of it. If you never need to speak, then it's fairly simple. I set u...

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Koz

I wouldn't get very far without the zoom tools. Any show longer than about ten minutes and you need to be able to go in and out at will to see what you're doing.

Koz