Audacity Forum

I'm conflicted a bit here because usually the first thing we tell people is to stop using Audacity 1.2. It's very old and it has problems with newer computers. That and it can't remember where it put the car keys. Get and install Audacity 1.3 from here... http://audacityteam.org/download/ Then. You ...

Do you have dimmers for the lights in your studio?
Koz

I got a second to listen to the last test. I don't think it's the laptop battery, so you can put off buying a new one for a while longer. Do you have the mixer plugged into the wall for power? I don't think this mixer has any other option, but we need to cover the bases. Do a test where you record a...

Your editing may not come out any better, but now you have a lot more information about what you're doing.

Koz

Unlike doing a blur in Photoshop or recalculating a spreadsheet in Excel, audio doesn't wait. If the pathway isn't perfect, direct quality and very, very fast, there will be holes in the presentation.

Koz

We must have been sleeping. Remember this? now I'll take your advice and first reset the USB connection from the computer input to the AC powered hub. You can't send audio through a hub. Further, the recommendation is to power the sound device from the wall, not the hub. The sound device must be pow...

1. Yes. 2. No. 3. Yes. You can't force many PCs into audio production because of this exact problem. Any time the computer has to stop and think about the music, it becomes late. If the computer is insanely busy or choked for resources, it could be very late. There is a provision of forcing your int...

One note. Since this device has no provision for volume control, you can run into overload problems with a really hot (or broken) tape machine. in that case, adapt the headphone connection instead of Line-Out, turn it down and go.

Koz

The UCA-202 has pretty much mopped the floor with the other variations. It's cheap and it works well.

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/UCA202.jpg

Koz

Another note about MP3. It's a video format. What. MP3's full family name is 'MPEG1 Layer 3'. An early video format. Because of this heritage, it makes a terrible format for audio production. It's easily damaged, does not edit well, and refuses to allow tight, accurate edit points. MP3 is a delivery...