Audacity Forum

There's one more hidden possibility for problems. Did you get to Snow Leopard by "upgrading" from Leopard and from Tiger before that? I'm about to blow away a Tiger install and put in Snow Leopard fresh in a wiped, clean drive to avoid multiple upgrade errors.

Koz

would it be possible for someone to create an add-on EQ that could be added to Audacity, that would allow us to adjust the EQ on the fly? This is where you say, "I'm a programmer and not doing anything. I'd be happy to develop a real-time equalizer module for Audacity -- as a volunteer, of cou...

You have to build it. Run Effect > Equalization. The blue line in the middle is a rubber band and you can push it around with your mouse. Make it look like this...
In Audacity 1.3, you can save it for use later.

Koz

You can start by applying the equalizer tool in the "telephone" setting: drop everything below 300 and above 3000. There may even be a pre-baked filter that does this.

Then apply Effect > Leveler about three times at maximum compression.

Koz

In Audacity 1.2, it's hidden in the preferences, one reason why nobody uses Audacity 1.2 any more.

Get Audacity 1.3.12 from here...

http://audacityteam.org/download/

...and that will let you set the encoding quality at the export step.

Koz

How many minutes into the song is the effect?
Koz

I think in this case the operator wants delay, and is not trying to eliminate it. But the answer is the same. No. You can't tune the "live" delay in Audacity. It's a function of the computer running the program. So, simply Microphone plugged into EQ - EQ into pre-amp - pre-amp into line in...

The WAV sample frequency is supposed to be 44100. That's the common sample rate for Music CDs. Don't confuse that with compression data rate. Are you sure you're exporting to an MP3 file? File > Export > MP3 Files > Options. A rate of 32 is minimum for a mono performance, 64 for stereo, and 128 is a...

Does the sound ever actually get to Audacity? Do you get the bouncing red record meters while you're capturing the mix? http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_record.jpg Audacity doesn't Save sound files. You have to File > Export to get a single, stand-alone sound file. Have you selected your sou...

Step One. Download and install Audacity 1.3.12. http://audacityteam.org/download/ You can install both versions, but only use one at a time. Audacity 1.3 Projects will not open in 1.2. Run Effects > Noise Reduction. The tool works in two steps. You select a portion of the show that's trash and nothi...