Audacity Forum

I threw it open to the corporate email system and I got an interesting idea. Shoot it like a movie. Do all the Skype work with one headset or one speaker/microphone combination and one of the fine Windows capture software packages. These will all give you stereo files with Near and Far on separate t...

The up side of the percent range 1 = 100% is the ease of editing. Most of the work in the average show occurs in the top 24dB of the range, and this work is clearly visible. Early broadcast sound meters only went down accurately to -20. There is a down side. That's only the top third of work you can...

Leaving aside the proposition that "Normalize" and "Amplify" should be one tool and DC Processing should be another, what is the goal? As I harp frequently, Audio doesn't go down to DC and shows that do have no place in Audacity or any other sound program. If you load a show with...

This is a good as I can do. Noise reduction is not intended to pull a good performance out of a blizzard of noise. You probably want something like this. This is the Famous UCA-202, used when you want to plug a stereo sound mixer into a Windows laptop. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/UCA202.jpg Koz

See? First year electronics stuff.

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

That provides the battery to run the headset microphone (pink plug) and passes the voice sound down to the mixer. If I have time later, I'll do a sound check.

Koz

The recording in a barn effect is very common and usually signals the dividing line between newbies and seasoned veterans. People who need to do theatrical presentations at home frequently resort to thickly padded closets or DIY "Studios." http://www.kozco.com/pictures/boothFinished/laptop...

We're a 2-man podcasting team and we call our guests on Skype One piece left out -- and you're doing the whole thing on one computer -- or you were until that turned out to be unworkable. I don't know anybody doing a complex podcast like this, and apparently, nobody else does either. Everybody poin...

In Windows you'd be using Pamela either Professional or Business (only) or Total Recorder. They're all money-based software. The lower two versions of Pamela are intentionally crippled.

I don't know how you'd do it on a Mac.

Koz

I see what they did. It's really a Mic-In and expecting a tiny, delicate signal. What many high level adapters do is include an attenuator to reduce the volume of the show signal to one acceptable to the Touch. I think it's still only mono -- which should be OK for what you're doing. I wonder who's ...

Blue Snowball isn't a shotgun microphone and will pick up a huge amount of background noise. And it's USB, so it won't plug into the Touch. There is one other difference between a computer Mic-In and a larger sound mixer. The computer connection also supplies battery voltage to run the microphone. T...