Audacity Forum

Any time you press record, Audacity will try to produce a fresh new recording -- one under the other. From there you can select one of them and File > Export Selected. If you just Export, you will get a mix-down of the two recordings. The solo and mute buttons to the left will turn each track on and...

Step one should probably be to not use Audacity. Audacity doesn't directly edit MP3 and you can cause sound damage by simple editing like you want to do. Use MP3Splt or one of the other direct MP3 editors. These can directly cut your song but they have a very simple tool set. http://mp3splt.sourcefo...

Actually, that's one of the recommended ways to export an MP3 show that was cut from another MP3 show. You can't ever go back down to the original tiny filesizes you had before and you're stuck with what compression bubbling and honking you had before. Please also note that MP3 is a video format. It...

Then there's the acting thing. One of the graphic artists at work has the touch for speaking. I keep wanting him to speak on mic so I can figure out what he's doing. Every time he gives a show -- trip to Russia -- history of animation, he plays to a packed house. Literally. You can't get any more pe...

If you have longer works published at a different web site or service, you can point to them instead of trying to post short works here. Windows laptops tend to come set for corporate and business communication and conferencing, not entertainment recording, so the microphones and most of the rest of...

Pitch change's major shortcoming is that's all it does. When you apply pitch change to a voice, natural lip sounds and sibilance change, too, and that sounds very unnatural. Similarly when you change the pitch of a guitar, the pick, strike, slide and squeak change along with the note and that can so...

Microsoft WAV files are pretty good stuff. They will open up in all three computer platforms and their digital sound damage is very near zero. Their only serious shortcoming is they're uncompressed and very large. Saving a Project, however, can be very fast since all the program has to do is shuffle...

You do overdubbing before you get it wrong the first time. Once you combine a good karaoke track with a bad voice, the whole thing is trash. You can't take them apart again, unless they're on two separate tracks. In overdubbing, you play the karaoke track to your headphones and then sing and the voi...

All the way up and down on the timeline is where the digital system "runs out of numbers" and can no longer accurately represent your show. The blue waves, if you magnify them a little, appear to have their tops and bottoms clipped off by this damage and this gives us "clipping" ...

I had one of those with a different setting. Nothing would happen until I touched the slider. Then the real slider value suddenly kicked in. That's been a very long time....

Koz