Audacity Forum

July 2010 Sound On Sound has a feature on vocal microphones.
Koz

<<<So far there's been no problems switching back and forth between Skype, Audacity and iTunes. >>> We're taking bets on when your Mac turns into a simmering pot of grog. Buanzo is holding the bets in an unlisted account in Argentina. I placed no more than 30 days. Anybody else? Anyone? Koz

<<<like charging a capacitor>>>

Except for the downward going bits.

Koz

And while you're shifting your wiring around, I bet you resolve your "two-microphone sounds like a tin can" problem. Two microphones close to each other can sound really odd if their signals interfere with each other. "Honky, Rain Barrel." Is there a condition, any condition ever...

Take that upside down. You can get stuck in the nickles and dimes cycle and be there forever. Under what conditions would you get a perfect recording? No limit at all. Drive up in a Glen-Glenn sound van and run cables out the door. Would that work? Is that overkill? Now use a smaller van. Still over...

Forgive me. I have removed your email address from the posting. It's an insanely bad idea to post a working address on a public forum. We get a large volume of advertising activity and I'm sure, email address harvesters. You can ask people who want to join you to do so in Private Message at the top ...

And if all else fails, put your cellphone on "Speaker Phone" and put your laptop built-in microphone half-way between that and you. We had a poster a little earlier that did something similar. He was complaining about quality, and yes, indeed, it would be terrible, but it would be the diff...

Here's one for you. How else would you graphically post that, given that we need to put a menu selection system local to each timeline? Most of us think the little stupid black arrow is a bad idea. So then what?

Koz

You are not forbidden from using the headphone connection if you can't do it any other way. That's how I did both piano2.wav and organfinale.wav from here...

http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html

Koz

That's a real MP3 file. Chances are really good the rest of your sound clips aren't.

Audacity 1.3.12 is pretty good at recognizing many more different sound types than 1.2 was. Upgrade.

Koz