Audacity Forum

The two specifications talk about things important to the people using them. The sample rate and the bit depth reflect directly on the quality of the work. 44100, 16-bit, Stereo is the specification for Music CDs. The slightly higher 48000, 16-bit Stereo is the specification for television sound. St...

Is the left side noisy or just nothing? If it's noisy, use the tools on the left drop-down menu: Split Stereo Track > "X" delete the left track > (menu again) Mono. If you need to use this work in stereo production later, you might want to install Audacity 1.3.12... http://audacityteam.org...

Chris's Compressor
http://pdf23ds.net/software/dynamic-compressor/

Not only consistency file to file, but consistency within each presentation.

Koz

<<<a microphone is always full-on, so to speak.>>> I wonder about that. Certainly dynamics and ribbons are always full on. There's no convenient way to change the magnetic field they work against, but condensers aren't like that. You can change the sensitivity of a condenser by changing the bias vol...

The one in Photoshop is the memory map before the program starts swapping off to the hard drives. If you're dealing with modules that don't swap -- ever -- and it's entirely possible you are, then you will always run out. And no, you can't force memory mapping without a developer getting into the ac...

I'm better than even sure that's a future feature request.

Audacity is not a surveillance or a TiVO system -- rolling recordings and go back and play while it's recording, etc.

It would be nice if it was...

Koz

It's not stupid, but it is a little odd. You want to add software so you can apply an effect to the Audacity timeline? Like Effect > Chorus-Simulation. Did I get that? Audacity doesn't support everybody's plugins because some of them are paid licenses. Further, some of them depend on software integr...

I'm going with busted sound card. Occam's Razor tells us that it's possible for the computer to be messed up enough to do this and it's possible for an Audacity install to be completely raped, but it's far, far more likely that the sound card is producing bad bits -- particularly if recording the Sy...

I'm on the edge of my seat for the results of your Chris Compressor tests. You said you got the plugin, right? Effect > Compress dynamics... Chris's reason for being is to gracefully even out the perceived loudness variations of presentations without clipping. I know you're having a lot of fun with ...

Vocoder uses two different sounds. Your voice is one sound and a musical instrument or other sound is the other. You can make yourself talk through a train whistle or other musical sound. You could put a separate voice as the second sound and mix them.

Koz