Audacity Forum

For that amount of money it would help if we knew a little more about the show(s). You can do well in a podcast with the Logitech Desktop USB microphone. I did some of the sound test on this microphone and it works very much better than you would assume for its $19 price. Once you run out of USB &qu...

There's also a rough character to it. That's why I also added the limiter/clipper effects in addition to the low pass filter. Do the clippers first, so the low pass filter will smooth over the edges. That should give you "Smooth Fur" on the sound instead of raspy "fuzz tone." Thi...

Most of that is pure tone-skipping autotune, but there's also that furry effect you might be able to replicate with Effect > Leveler or Effect > Hard Limiter, followed maybe by a little Effect > Equalize to mute the harsher overtones. Instead of that, maybe Effect > Low Pass set to 5KHz or 8KHz. The...

There's nothing simple about it. "Direct" is what happens when you listen to YouTube or record your voice on the built-in microphone. Those are guaranteed sound services on most computers. Stereo Mix is a "fake" device designed to run the play service and the record service at th...

Yes, but I didn't organize and post it. You did. Koz

I get two different songs for about 30 seconds That's probably normal. Each time you press Record, Audacity will create a new audio track starting from zero. The difference between straight Record and Overdubbing is Overdubbing tries to play all available tracks to your headphones while you're reco...

I wrote parts of the overdubbing tutorial and on the first page is the strong recommendation that you make a simple recording and play it back. If you have not yet made a recording and played it back using Audacity and your selected hardware, please read our First Recording tutorial. Trying to troub...

I get show on the output meter when Software Playthrough is on and I get echo. That part at least, is perfectly correct. Audacity is accepting the show and turning a copy of it around immediately for you to hear -- but is doing it "one computer late." That's the echo. That's the time it t...

I don't know that I would have called it a "radio" effect. It sounds like "fuzz guitar" effect for a voice. I'd probably copy a clean (sometimes called "dry") voice track to a second track and apply Effect > Hard Limiter or Effect > Leveler to the second track. You can ...

I'd be recording at 48000 instead of the Audacity default of 44100. 48000 is the television/video sound standard and 44100 is the somewhat lesser quality music CD standard. The other number is a little stickier. If you plan on extensive effects and filtering, you should be using 32-bit floating -- i...