Audacity Forum

You adjusted your volumes with the sliders to the left of each track, right?
Koz

These microphones are insanely directional. See if you're not talking into the back side of the microphone -- which will try to reject you. Feel around inside the little foam ball and see if the microphone isn't turned around.

Koz

Maybe like this?
http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PCHeadset.jpg

Koz

Please note that they're still arithmetic functions. They don't "know" what music is. The highest sound peak in a vinyl transfer is unlikely to be music. It's likely to be a cat hair on the record.

Koz

The waveform went flat, but is there still music when you play it? Did that exact segment play music before you deleted the one second? The blue waves are created by a graphics file or two and they can get seriously out of step with the performance. A wav will go flat if it represents a music file y...

Normalize and Amplify are slightly different arithmetic functions. They're not what you would consider sound tools. Amplify bumps up the overall volume of whatever you select until the one loudest peak in the whole thing hits overload. Normalize does the same thing except it does left and right inde...

See if the Windows soundcard setup has a provision for 20dB Sound Boost. They may call it something else. Start > Control Panels > Sound....

Koz

Import your song into Audacity. Click-Select the area at the beginning of the show, or press Home.

Generate > Silence > Choose the number of seconds > OK.

Koz

Yes, but. Audacity resamples internally and you can export a new file at whatever sample rate or compression you want. Change the show sample rate with the little window lower left. That's the good news. In order to retain the sound quality of the original show, you can't compress it any more. No mo...

It should be possible using the Audacity toolbar drop-downs to select Stereo-Mix, WAV Out, What-U-Hear or one of those to record whatever the computer is playing. You also have to select your sound card to make sure the captured show plays to your speakers. You have to hit both of them. http://manua...