Audacity Forum

I wonder where the problem is. According to the printed specifications, the output of the microphone for standard sound is just very slightly lower than a Shure SM58, the world standard rock star microphone. So this isn't a weak sister ribbon. Are you using it right? This microphone has a figure of ...

While you record in Audacity, do you get the red recording meters and are they different during the course of the show? http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_record.jpg You got fuzzy when you were describing connecting the Yamaha 3 to the computer. How exactly did you do that? What kind of cable,...

I can shortcut this. The only way you would be able to tell is if one side of the conversation went through multiple MP3 edits and compressions and not the other. It doesn't take too many of those trips for the sound damage to become obvious even to somebody with minimal experience. MP3 damage is pe...

<<<- Select the High-pass filter effect and enter a really low cutoff frequency - about 10 should do it since human hearing only kicks in around 20 Hz or so. - Select the Remove DC Offset box under the "Normalize" effect. However, this will also change your overall levels since you're norm...

<<<Crazy but true: I do wish the developers would separate out the DC offset into its own function. Especcially sind DC-offset removal is probably the first thing you should do post-capture while Normalizing should usually be doe as the last step in the production process, after all other editing.>>...

I can think of one completely insane way to tell. You need someone with "golden ears" that knows exactly what MP3 compression damage sounds like. If you have a large music file, but sounds bubbly and honky like a much smaller compressed music file, it's a pretty safe bet somebody did produ...

You can tell from my example that it wasn't made by lame. I made that file in Cool Edit 2000 and I paid for the Fraunhofer MP3 license. If I opened up that file in Audacity and Exported a new MP3, the new file would look like it came from Audacity, not Cool Edit. I wonder if you would be able to tel...

<<<I pitch-shifted that down one octive and mixed it back in. It sounded lousy. >>>

I tried that. It sounded lousy.

Koz

We generally recommend dropping Audacity 1.2 as a hot rock and install 1.3.12. http://audacityteam.org/download/ You don't have to uninstall 1.2. Just stop using it. Audacity 1.3 Projects will not open in 1.2 <<<How do you record audio that is playing on your computer?>>> That has come up once or tw...

You should plug your headphones into the USB device or sound mixer and not the computer. The computer sound is always going to be one computer late. You can tune out the latency in Audacity 1.3.12 multi-tracking (not Audacity 1.2), but the live delay is burned into the computer. Nobody's had the mox...