Audacity Forum

What's the computer?
Did you get the right Audacity?

http://audacityteam.org/download/mac

Koz

Expand on "the mic." What where and how? Model numbers. You can Control-Click on the red recording meters and select Start Monitoring. The meters will wake up and meter your efforts without Audacity going into actual record. Also recommended is make the meters bigger. Click on the right-ha...

Oh, and to specifically answer your question, not all computers support Self Recording. It's not a guaranteed service. We've written a bit on how to do that.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... puter.html

Koz

It's not that easy. You need to run software designed to record Skype. Pamela Professional and Pamela Business are two programs that will record high quality Skype conversations split left to right so you can apply corrections and filters in post production. http://www.pamela.biz/en/products/ You ma...

line out to line in on a windows laptop. There are some Windows laptops that have stereo Line-In, but there aren't many and they tend to be higher end. Most Windows laptops have a Mic-In. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PCLaptopSound.jpg It's mono and set to receive the low-level, delicate s...

Can you give us a hint? There's a lot of documentation out there.
Koz

Effect > Compressor. All the tools in this series actually change the loudness of the show note by note. The posted show is not going to strictly follow the expression of the player any more. How bad that is will depend on which compressor you select, the settings, and how it was designed. You might...

You can slide back and forth between 80, 100, and 150 Low Cut Filter. Nobody here would dream of recording live voices without the 100Hz cut filter. 80 is very gentle and 150 may be too aggressive for you. Experiment on a known voice track with the High Pass Filter and all three values. What kills y...

Neither Equalization nor Analysis > Plot Spectrum work in real time. You stop, drag-select some of the show (or the whole show) and equalize it or analyze it.

Sorry.

Yes it's awkward.

Koz

The rhyme and reason is Audacity doesn't save sound files. It saves Projects. To get a stand-alone sound file that will play on a lot of different computers you have to File > Export one. A Project is a supervisory file called .aup and a folder of the same name followed by _data. MyShow.aup MyShow_d...