Audacity Forum

The Audacity 1.2 settings were in the Dreaded Windows Registry, but Audacity 1.3 keeps its files separate -- I have no idea where. If the microphone volume slider in Audacity won't do it -- or has no effect, then you may need to adjust the Windows Control Panels directly. That's basically all Audaci...

Most of the time we just say give up and forget it, but your process should have worked given everything is perfect and you're willing to crank away at it.

Koz

<<<my live recording was clipping/distorting.>>> I'll fill in the blanks. You're recording something like a turntable or cassette machine by plugging an adapter cable into the Mic-In of your laptop. Did I hit it? Has this ever worked? I'm guessing no. Most Windows laptops need a little help like a U...

You can't view the composite blue waves for any of this because of the mixed track nature of the performance. Both tracks will look a mess. It's possible that the sound effect you're after is different on successive passes. This can happen because even though the effect sounds the same throughout th...

<<<I recorded the music direct from a pre-amp equipped turntable >>> That doesn't get your turntable into the Mac. How do you do that? Analog connection into the Line-In or USB? If you switch the MacBook to recording from the built-in microphone, can you edit that recording OK? Koz

This is me writing that down.

Koz

A few words on why you want the MP3 is good. If your whole job was to get the music into iTunes, Ol' Bill pretty much did it for you. If you want the music in your iPod, you can do that with the AIFF file and it will sound terrific, but you wont get very many pieces on there before it fills up. That...

"Them" being two stereo tracks? Leave number one as the "reference" track and click inside the left INFO panel of number two to select it. Effect > Invert. The desired music -- common to both upper and lower tracks has blue waves that are now exactly upside down with respect to e...

Do your manual recordings actually play? Typically they don't. People record eight hours and only get two or some low number when they try to play back the show. While there's no theoretical reason for long recordings to fail, there are plenty of practical ones. Finite drive space, computer stabilit...

Not that I know of, but it's an interesting idea. You might be able to get it to work manually by inverting one of the two tracks and tune until the desired music track cancels. Then uninvert and load the next one. Slide it around until it cancels and then uninvert. Keep doing that until you get to ...