Audacity Forum

I can see a practical problem. The noise level in a quiet room can be very low and can compete with the internal noise of the sound card and microphone. In real life you hear the air conditioner, footsteps, muted conversation, but the recording is twice as loud as real life because of the constant f...

(removing it would be better but I think that’s quite difficult to do) Doing anything to a mixed sound track other than enjoy it is very difficult to do. Your best bet is ADR... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbing_%28filmmaking%29 You get your friends and neighbors into a quiet room with a microph...

Just a note that Audacity doesn't Save sound files. It saves Projects and those are a little complicated. To get a stand-alone sound file that you can email to your mom, use Export.

Koz

If your work is MP3s, you should be able to copy them to wherever you want. We need to wait for an actual Windows person for the mechanics, but there is a way to open up Program Files in such a way that you can copy work out.

Koz

it is beyond the range of human hearing.

However, it could make your dog crazy.

This is where you tell us exactly what the project is, or get good at telling us in technical terms what you want.

Koz

Audacity doesn't save sound files. It saves Projects. That's what that pile of data snippets is (they're not all sound files). You can open the AUP file associated with the Project and it will put the show back together again.

To get a stand-alone sound file, use Export.

Koz

You should not be saving work to "Program Files." That's where the computer puts the information to actually run Audacity and it's dangerous to park musical work there. I noticed this when I recently installed a very fresh version of Audacity. I brought it up to the other elves and we are ...

You need to pay attention to the microphone as directional mics can have serious repeatability problems. Also recording for a very long time (10 hours) demands a very well behaved computer.

Koz

You could choose your loudest sound and note where the sound meter reads in Audacity. All the other samples will be lower than that. Of course, you can't change anything between readings. You probably shouldn't use the computer for anything else. Making a Skype call in the middle of the job would be...

You can use this instrument to calibrate your computer. When this instrument reads 0dBSPL (for example), then the computer reads -- whatever -- and that's your calibration point. Also remember that electronic sound goes from a maximum of 0dB (equipment failure) and always goes down, Real Life has a ...