Audacity Forum

That's impressive on so many levels. FireFox tried to load and play the file and hung. I had to sudo kill -9 to get control of the machine back.

What's the possibility of getting something other than a proprietary Windows Media sound file posted (said the Mac user)?

Koz

Did you put dates into any of your filenames? MyViolinRehersal_11/5/10.wav

Koz

So you'll probably need the FBI one.

Koz

I know this is going to be a little rough, but try to be more compulsive with the details. Not "I bought a microphone," but "I bought a Logitech Model H330 USB headset." I plugged it into my Lenovo ThinkPad X201 laptop and I'm recording with Audcity 1.3.12 under Windows 7. It's a...

Here. Not a lot of setup with this and I did edit the volumes so the newspaper test isn't killer loud. I suspect I could easily get rid of the rest of the background noise with Steve's Threshold Filter or Noise Reduction.

Koz

I've never tried recording with my laptop. That may be an interesting test.
Koz

<<<the good old internal mic for me for a while yet...>>> Yes, but that doesn't mean it has to sound like trash. You can do really well with a built-in microphone if 1) Windows Sound Services isn't trying to help you with echo cancellation and other tricks, 2) the laptop itself doesn't make too much...

Here's an example of Peter Frampton singing through his guitar. Same tool.

http://www.splendad.com/ads/show/1752-G ... r-Frampton

Koz

<<<Each recording basically had no distortion for 2 or 3 seconds and then blammo ... everything went underwater.>>> If you were using the built-in microphone on your laptop, you fell into the audio conferencing processing that Windows has. That's almost always the problem when the recording goes wel...

Noise Removal and interference processing all work really well when you don't need them. They were designed for the slight air conditioning whine in the far background of a successful interview. Most people want crime scene forensics. Take unrecognizable trash and turn it into clear voice. Human voi...