Audacity Forum

I know it seems like nothing useful is happening, but the fact that you can record and thumb the needle and get blue waves and bouncing red sound meters means that you could, if you wanted to, make a recording and export it as as a perfectly good music file. The fact that you can't hear it is incide...

I have a decent XLR cartioid mic Which is? We thrive on details. Your test clip is equal parts gentle rain-in-the-trees white noise and a refrigerator compressor somewhere in the apartment. Maybe computer fan noise. This is where we find you've been recording with the microphone on top of the compu...

1) Pop filters, are they easy to rip? Some of the larger ones won't fit in your purse or bag, so those are hard to hide. See if they come apart. Some unscrew. The smaller ones also come with a flexible wand holder and they'll curl up to a nice small size so you can make it past security and safely ...

Look at the top of the audacity window at the device toolbar -- microphone symbol. What does it say there? Does it indicate "USB Sound Device" or something similar? Did you try to use Skype in the middle between recordings? Did you unplug the tape machine? With the tape machine plugged in,...

One of my contacts suggested a new service I hadn't heard of before. Talkshoe.com. It's set up as a massive conference call from which you can walk away with a mixed show. http://www.talkshoe.com/se/about/TSAbout.html Everybody I talked with questioned the idea of 6 hosts. Since this isn't televisio...

apply dynamic compression to a sound file? Books have been written. The problem is not how to apply compression. That's a relatively simple math function. The problem is compressing so it sounds good. That's where you write the books. Look-ahead attack, pumping suppression, compression recovery, et...

iTunes.

iTunes should have burning tools. Create a playlist with your music in it and then File > Burn Playlist to Disk.

If that fails, then you have a serious system problem. Your CD device is a CD-R, CD-RW, right? Can you point to somewhere that clearly says that?

Koz

None. On some DAT machines, the only convenient way to get analog sound out of the machine is adapt the headphone jack to stereo RCAs.

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/RCAMiniStereo.jpg

Koz

We do well with our around the earth coverage. A USB microphone will only show up in Audacity if the mic is already there when Audacity is started. You can also Transport > Scan for Audio Devices. If that fails, you may need to reinstall Audacity. Do not trash the Audacity Program Files. http://manu...

I'd use Chris's Compressor. Chris's software is a cousin to the broadcast compressors that make it so you don't have to constantly readjust the radio volume in your car. Ever notice that? http://theaudacitytopodcast.com/chriss-dynamic-compressor-plugin-for-audacity/ I change the first number -- comp...