Audacity Forum

If you have older music -- generally that cost 99 cents -- you may not be able to export or convert those songs into anything. Older downloaded iTunes music had FairPlay Copy Protection. The only way to manage those songs is to create a Playlist, drag the music to the Playlist and burn a Music CD. T...

It's almost certain this is a Windows problem, not Audacity. Audacity is not recording your Line-In or Mic-In. It's recording Mix-Out or Stereo-Out which is required when you record YouTube or Internet Sound. Those settings kill you when you decide to start recording Live Performances. So it's a tri...

I couldn't get the instructions to tell me clearly anything about the basic operation of the program. We'd be asking you since you actually own it.

Koz

I think it's intended to be the RMS value, but it's of limited usefulness because the display changes with magnification. This may be why it doesn't show up in the instructions. Also, from your electrical classes, the blue waves in general represent the electrical value of the sound at any point in ...

That sounds like a very low recording volume from your microphone trying to compete with all the electrical noise inside the computer. Try this. Set up for recording like you did only don't talk. Get the computer to do something else -- surf the internet, open a Photoshop file, save or open a graphi...

Bug bug bug bug bug... One of the features of a "bug" is multiple people can reproduce the problem on multiple computers. In order to do this, we need very specific file data -- or possibly the files themselves posted and the very specific steps and conditions to reproduce. As above, unle...

we need to be able to eq while listening to the tracs!! to get it right!

Perfectly correct. However, Audacity doesn't do anything in real time except record, play and some timer functions.

I'll see about adding your name to the "Live" feature request.

Koz

I have been working on a huge recording project

How huge?

Have you been progressively saving the show as different filenames as you edit? MyShow1.aup, MyShow2.aup, MyShow3.aup?

How full is your hard drive?
Go > Computer > Control-Click on your System Drive > Get INFO.

Koz

Here's an 8 second clip twice. Once as I received it with teeth drilling Ss and again with some equalizer shenanigans. This was the trade-off. I can make you sound mellower but dull, or I can brighten it up. This is my impression of what you might really sound like. I'm more than ever in the camp th...

Probably a good way to get a nice "noise" sample would be to record, say 20 seconds, before you step into the "recording booth". Or, as before, set up as if you were going to do a "take," let the house settle down, count to five in your announcing voice and then hold y...