Audacity Forum

Touching that pan control on a mono show cause a number of undesirable things to happen: -- It causes the sound meters and the time line to not match. -- It cause the speakers and the time line to not match. -- It causes the exported show not to match the timeline. -- It causes the exported show, wh...

Can you try your microphone on a different computer before you pop for the money? You have classic conferencing, phone call, or auto level setting typical of a newer Windows machine -- Vista or Win7. They're corporate communications computers, not entertainment producers. Changing the microphone wil...

suppose I would need to use an Audacity Project for intermediate saves on a multi-track project. I haven't actually tried this, but as a group, the elves have been telling people they can export multi-track WAV files. Projects will certainly do this. You need to know that Projects do not retain UND...

If I truly only have 16-bit data, then I'll stick with 16-bit all the way through my process. Anybody know of a utility that can tell what's really in a sound file? On a Mac or Windows, Quicktime Info will give you the laundry list of what it thinks is in the file. On plain Windows, you can right-c...

I wonder if they do that just to make the producers happy. The engineers know better. "Yeah, that's nice. We'll turn it up to 11." I actually had a producer urge me, after much messing with the equalizer, to "boost all the frequencies." I mean Audacity will not Save a sound file....

Welcome to the schizophrenic nature of Audacity. Audacity will import music at whichever is higher, the specification of the actual file, or the specification of Audacity Preferences. Audacity comes out of the box 32 bit and tries to convert everything to that. Audacity has no reliable INFO tools. Y...

Oh. Sorry. You posted in the Audacity 1.2 forum.
Koz

All that and you will get the most and best advice if you use Audacity 1.3 instead of 1.2. Audacity 1.2 is very old and no longer supported, patched, corrected, or updated. Audacity 1.2 can be unstable on newer computers. Download and install the latest Audacity 1.3 from here... http://audacityteam....

Recording happens in two steps. Your microphone picks up your voice and causes the Audacity red recording meters to jump and the blue waves to appear on the time line. Do you have it that far? The second, separate job is for Audacity to fold back the voice so you can hear it. This step isn't require...

I thought there was a way to force the machine to record a two-track mono signal, but I can't find it now. There are ways of mixing a mono microphone with stereo music, but I think it's too confusing, so I go through the Edit > Duplicate Track and then Make Stereo from the left-hand menu items. This...