Audacity Forum

This was a big problem in Audacity 1.2.

Koz

Audacity and in fact most live production programs audio or video will not run into a full and/or badly fragmented hard drive. Empty out until there's between 10% and 20% free space on your system drive and then run error check once and defragment multiple times. If you've never defragmented your ma...

You're using Audacity 1.3.12, right?

Koz

I then playback MP3

In what? Windows Media? Can you play the file in Audacity? Does it work if you Export a WAV (as an experiment)?

Koz

This can happen if you decide to put a date or other illegal character in the filename. Upper and lower case letters, numbers, underscore, and dash are the only unconditionally safe characters in filenames.

Write dates 20110103, not 11/3/11.

Koz

Then there's AutoTune. Software that will not let you sing off key. People generally stay away from AutoTune or let it do everything because you can hear it working, but if you have enough violins in the background, you can't tell. I played the clip multiple times looking for the tonal snapping that...

Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input. Switch that to the device you want the sound to come from. You may have to go back and change Audacity again. If you change Audacity, restart it.

Koz

The dynamic compressor..I'm using Audacity 1.3, I feel like that is already loaded in as one of the effects. Am I wrong in this? The Dynamic Compressor is, but Chris's Compressor does a much better job. The built-in effect is an arithmetic tool. Chris is more musical. I've been leaning closer and c...

Is there any way to try the turntable on another computer? Did you save the receipts? Do you have any other USB devices you can try on your computer, like a thumb drive? USB turntables are throw-away devices. Everybody knows that when the last record is transferred, the turntable is going in the tra...

You might also try more complicated instruments in the background. It's easier to hide behind violins than a single piano.

Koz