Audacity Forum

There is a convenient format for posting a voice test on the forum. It lends itself to the audiobook processing, mastering, and testing. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html Read down the blue links, they're very short and they address common mistakes. We have pre-baked au...

Sloops. Screen Shot 2020-07-10 at 7.59.39 AM.png Are you familiar with the game "telephone?" That's where many of you sit in a line and start a message at one end and each person whispers it to the next person? You see what comes out the other end and hilarity ensues. Any reason we're doin...

the computer is always multitasking even if you're only running one application. Overdubbing stresses the machine. It has to manage multiple sound pathways perfectly and in real time. There is no machine "Hang on while I check something." If you were just getting along OK with simple soun...

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The laptop is recording from the built-in microphone and the laptop is sitting on a wastepaper basket which accounts for that severe resonant honk. The basket is made of metal, is blue, and has pictures of sailboats.

Just a guess.

Koz

https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/ScratchTest2.mp3 In your case, you may have more than one active. Depending on the machine, "recording from the internet" activates everything. In the Audacity setups, you should be recording from one single "real" device. Note that in th...

What kind of player and how do you have it connected? If you're on Windows, sometimes getting a good, simple connection goes a long way.

Koz

Oh. One more. Most voice work is produced mono. One blue wave. Pull down menu on the left > Split Stereo to Mono. Delete one of the tracks. Screen Shot 2020-07-09 at 6.09.57 PM.png That voice distortion could be extreme echo cancellation and automatic noise reduction. Zoom or Skype. Those are usuall...

I do like the voice, but everything else could use work. loud reverberation in the room. What he said. It's a shock to discover how hard it is to produce studio conditions in your house. That almost sounds like recording in the bath. There is a fuzzy rule for spacing. One Hawaiian Shaka without a wi...

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... _os_x.html

Koz

Is it a Nyquist file and do you have your Macs set to show you filename extensions?


What's the effect and where did you get it from? I don't think Audacity recognizes Dynamic Link Libraries (.dll)

Koz