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Can she get married again? Overload that bad is one of the four horsemen. -- Echoes and room reverberation -- Overload and Clipping -- Compression Damage -- Background Conversations #2. You can't reverse them. I'm fascinated the sound was that bad. That's the kind of damage you get trying to shoot a...

You're currently recording the laptop microphone and presenting the shows from the laptop speakers, yes? It's easy and easy to understand, but the down asideis you also get the dogs barking down the road. You can record direct from the birstreams on many computers and avoid all that. -- Record Inter...

Missed one. It's remotely possible that your laptop will switch between Mic-In and Stereo Line-In -- usually in the control panels. Some do. Most don't.
Koz

I want to use a male to male stereo mini plug cable from a cassette player (or radio) to a my laptop's mic-in connection (I have no line in connection). Can this be done? You can do it, but it probably won't work very well. Mic-In is delicate, sensitive and mono. The radio is stereo and powerful. N...

Also you should change the rates in Audacity Preferences > Quality.
Koz

Change the Project Rate in the lower left. Also, if you feel like it. File > Export > Other Uncompressed Files > Options If you didn't personally record the music or work, then the extra sample rate may not do you a lot of good. The music is pre-broken before you got it. It doesn't get clearer and q...

There's a number of serious problems in there. It's not just muffled. The sample rate is 11KHz which means the best you can ever do is AM radio -- and the quality is far worse than that. I hear compression artifacts and honking. Oh, and it's muffled, too. There is nothing to rescue. The speech frequ...

This is an analysis I did of one single piano note. I think the first note from here: http://www.kozco.com/tech/piano2.wav This is the analysis. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/piano_G1.jpg The mess to the right of the actual note, G1, is the overtones and harmonics that make a piano a piano. Those s...

Is this another plea for closer integration between Analyze Spectrum and Equalizer? As it stands now, you have to carefully analyze the work and assuming two serious spikes, one at 1KHz and the other at 150Hz, write those two numbers down, open up the equalizer and pull down those two frequencies, o...

I'm curious why you didn't use dB Waveform for those pictures. Straight Waveform doesn't go much beyond -30dB before it loses its usefulness. Koz