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Speed changes, stuttering, gaps, holes, gritty sound, and playing off pitch are almost all symptoms of a machine running short of resources. When you overdub, the computer has to play back all your old tracks exactly perfectly correctly and also record the new track with absolute accuracy. This is n...

The existing tracks were imported WAV files and show a sampling rate of 44.1kHz according to the track bar. Audacity does not do "Clip INFO." You need to do an INFO outside of Audacity to see what you actually have. Audacity does very serious conversions on Import and immediately forgets ...

Any iPhone can do that very well. There are thousands of Voice Recording applications. The later iPod Touch devices can do that as well. They're even smaller and lighter -- and cheaper. http://lifehacker.com/5879232/the-best-voice-recording-app-for-iphone http://www.recordertheapp.com/ That one has ...

Which cassette recorder, how did you connect it to your computer and which computer?

Koz

The odd whomping noises during the words I suspect are the performer too close to the microphone. Nobody can cure that although you might help with the 100 Hz High Pass Filter.

Many of us would be shooting that show again correctly.

Perhaps your boss can show you how it's done.

Koz

You can absolutely turn it into a telephone call with the high and low pass filters. You can simulate that with Effect > Equalizer like this... http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/telephoneFilter.jpg Professional recordists also use a less dramatic series of filters -- the most common one is High...

The rear speakers sound a bit weak

Surround recordings put you in the middle of the audience, not the middle of the bassoons (as a rule).

I do wonder why no test recording I ever met tests the LFE. There has to be some reason.

Koz

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tuto ... iscs_to_CD

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Reco ... turntables

Koz

Are you planing to update Audacity in order to export FLAC files into ALAC m4a?

We're planning on getting an Apple developer. Are you available?
Koz

I use my mobile phone to make voice recordings, Which one do you use that doesn't work? Yes, recording a telephone of any sort is a frequently asked question. The two foolproof ways are Pamela and Total Recorder, the Skype recorder software (Windows only) and a real broadcast telephone hybrid and c...