Audacity Forum

There is a process for recording vinyl and it doesn't involve stopping and starting a million times. You start the recording and go for a cup of tea. One whole side. Stop. Then mark up each song in post production with Labels. This is also the step where you apply click reduction and any filtering y...

And if there is room, find out if it's good, high-quality space by defragging and error checking.

Start > My Computer > Right-Click C: > Properties > Tools > Error Checking and Defragmentation.

I may have that order wrong. My Windows machine is miles away.

Koz

I think you may be trying to do this wrong. It may be convenient to do that the way it used to work, but that's not natural. If you play your entire timeline -- all the tracks -- and it sounds OK, you should export it just like that and Audacity will automatically mix it down to a single stereo trac...

I don't see those settings in normal Audacity Export, so you probably need the FFMpeg software.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... tallffmpeg

Koz

Given that it's a very old cassette tape, you could try the Effect > Low Pass Filter set to 5000 or 7000. 24dB. Experiment.

One more. Effect > Notch Filter at 180. That should get rid of that hum.

Koz

You can't actually take hiss out of a recording.The best the tools can do is take hiss out of most of the show and try to stop reduction during human speech and music. If the show is bad enough, the tool can't tell when to kick in and out. If you don't do that, then the hiss removal will succeed, bu...

I think it's Effect > Change Tempo. Koz

Click just above the MUTE button on the left of the track and select "Length" for the middle time window on the bottom. Koz

Uncompressed. "Straight" PCM, either WAV or AIFF, for example. The instant you flirt with smaller than normal files, you need to pay attention and find out how the system got those smaller files. Apple has intentionally created a fuzzy term "lossless" where you have smaller files...

it starts to be kind of a pain to navigate. The whole Effect Menu system is a sore spot and has been for a while. Audacity does not have the ability to assign effects to hot keys and it doesn't have the ability to ad-lib create groups of effects (that I know of). Either or both of those are necessa...