Audacity Forum

Let me read this back to you. You want to overdub the last four seconds of a performance without having to sit through the whole three minutes that came before? I think there's a way to do that in Audacity 2.0.3, but not earlier versions. That's a research project or wait for one of the other forum ...

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/preferences.html

Scroll down. They're different for each platform.

Koz

Cellphone recording software is not for the far end. It's only for you. You are listening to the accidental audio leakage through the body of the cellphone into the recording, not an intentional recording. That's why your voice is so clear. Audacity has no forensics tools. We can't bring a voice bac...

Phantom Power while normal is a bit of black magic. How do you send enough power to run the microphone up a long mic cable and have it completely invisible to the sound going back down the other way. Couple that with how a condenser microphone works and it's a wonder these things run at all. Koz

48 volt phantom power only works with cables like this between the microphone and the sound device.

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/XLR-Cable.jpg

Phantom power is the red button on the front? I can't get a good picture of the unit.

Koz

Everybody thinks MIDI is real sound because of the built-in MIDI support on most computers. It's very nearly transparent. Play a MIDI song on the computer and the computer builds a piano for you and then plays the piano. There is no sound file. Each computer will sound different because each builds ...

Overdubbing.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... rdubs.html

Koz

If you're intent on overdubbing/sound-on-sound, that's how it works. Audacity will not mix down to one track in real time. What you do is play the original tracks into your headphones while you record new tracks one atop the other on separate timelines. That lets you filter and apply effects to one ...

It's always dangerous when Windows people assure us that a file is in WAV format because it's pretty difficult to determine that. You might tell Windows to show you file extensions and that may help a lot. You may discover that myMusic.wav is really myMusic.wav.m4a and is really an MPEG sound file o...

I have been known to need to set these things in Audacity and Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input. Sometimes you can make that error go away by changing Audacity Quality from 32-floating to 16-bit -- all this assuming the device is working correctly. If it doesn't show up in System...