Audacity Forum

The obvious question is: "What's Wallander Instruments?"
I don't have one of those. I spotlighted and straight searched. Zip.

If it has anything to do with the sound services, you may have to disable it. Audacity is pretty simple and doesn't like sharing it's resources with others.

Koz

It would, yes. OK, let me look at the mixer.... [time passes]. The mixer has three ways to control the volume of the microphone: Gain, Mic (both on the left) and Main Mix. Are any of those all the way up? Gain in particular should never be cranked wide open. Messy things happen when you do that on a...

OK. Step one, the nanoKEY is not a musical keyboard. It's a MIDI controller and it's really playing the MIDI interpreter inside the computer. That's where the music is coming from -- that's the musical instrument, not the keys you're pressing And it's at that exact point where it gets magic. Typical...

AUP isn't a sound file, so we'll have to believe you.

You're recording your own live voice or other instrument? Not something fancy like trying to record your cellphone bitstream?

Did you change that number in the lower left of Audacity, or bump the variable speed play slider?

Koz

Some computers allow recording music playing on the computer and some don't. It's not a guaranteed service.

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

Koz

Audacity is not a good surveillance recorder. There are other applications that do a better job -- like automatically rolling the recording so it grabs the latest 10 hours and deletes as it goes, and record and play/scrubbing at the same time. As above, you have to pay attention if you want Audacity...

Which Behringer mixer?
Koz

Most hiss noise like this comes from the microphone amplifier. On some Mic Amps, if you unplug the microphone, the hiss level goes up. They want to be connected to each other. Microphone level is vanishingly small. It's a delicate butterfly compared to most other electrical signals. The microphone a...

And also, if you play your cards right, even though you have the performance carefully sliced up into individual pieces, you can set your burning software for "0 seconds" between CD cuts and the disk will play straight through exactly like the original show with no holes, and you can still...

It's probably useful to note that Audacity doesn't edit MP3. It pulls the music in as an Audacity custom format and then creates a whole new MP3 when you're done. Audacity default MP3 Export (that I remember) is Stereo 128. It's certainly possible that the "lame" MP3 generation software do...