Audacity Forum

Are you recording your microphone? try a recording with the speakers off, or scratch around your computer with your finger while making a recording. That's how I found where my microphone was. It's not obvious on my laptop. One of the problems with recording What You Hear or whatever your particula...

<<<All this as some sort of community service?>>>

I'm not going there. I'm tri-lingual as is the company. By far the worst problems we have are casual users trying to deal with Open SUSE.

Koz

The inside of an electrically noisy computer is a pretty awful place to put an unshielded piece of audio equipment -- a sound card. Macs are the notable exception and most of them don't have microphone connections. Much better to do all the analog audio steps outside the computer, in an external sou...

For almost any of these tools to work, the voice has to have an "identity." There has to be something about it that's different from the rest of the show for the tool to "chew on." In the case of the vocal management tools -- including the one inside Audacity -- they depend on th...

You should probably stop using Audacity1.2. It's very out of date and no longer supported or updated.

It also defaults to mono.

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Koz

Can you tell if the shows are in actual stereo, or two-track mono? If they're really in stereo -- the instruments are spread out around you, then you might be able to make use of Vocal Isolation tools. Dig around in those tools. This is your only chance. If anything goes wrong, the show is in messy ...

<<<transferred the recording through WireTap into an .mp3 or .aif file.>>>

You can ignore the MP3 file. Compressed music formats cause sound damage.

Koz

Open the file, don't Import it.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 10#p108306

Koz

It's not a regular WAV file. If you can open it in Audacity and it plays super fast, then you have a compressed file type that Audacity doesn't understand how to manage. Download either LRMonoPhase or Piano2 from here and open them in Audacity. http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html Do they sound...

You should use Audacity 1.3.12. The earlier 1.2 is hopelessly out of date and is no longer supported or updated.

Do you speak UNIX? The graphic user interface in Linux will only take you so far and then you need to get into the command-line details.

...said the Mac user.

Koz