Audacity Forum

<<<a professional equipment chain with no other weak links, and a good pair of ears to hear the difference>>> Effectively impossible because straight electronic components and electrical connections have noise and can be relied on to limit any design project. My audio design books feature a chapter ...

Was the overdub you singing live in front of a microphone and the guitar (for example) was the original track? Describe the show. I suspect the first thing I'd do is Save the Project so if you do something really silly, you can get back to where you are right now. Don't save anything else with that ...

Grab a coffee and read through this thread. I believe it's the longest in the history of the forum. This is Bruno trying to record his acoustic guitar...

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... t=0#p67836

Koz

<<<I doubt someone is going to turn it off due to the sound quality.>>> Exactly. And the vast majority of podcast producers have no idea what's happening and think it's normal. Somebody did a poll of college students and they think undistorted music sounds funny. I can't listen to Sirius radio. It s...

<<<There's nothing that you can do to the "frequencies" because the voice(s) and the piano are predominantly in the same frequency range.>>> This is one piano note. "G" two octaves down...maybe? http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/piano_G1.jpg Voices can be expected to do something si...

Audacity doesn't use 32-bit. It uses 32 floating which allows for magic like undistorted sound level over "0" during effects. We determined through exhaustive posting that the DC Offset tool in "Normalize" worked better than trying to do it by hand or with the equalizer. It takes...

<<<people talking over background music>>>

"People," not "Person?"

That cound be interesting...

These tools all work best from a steady-state problem. One person talking from one place in the room.

Koz

<<<increase the gain (off to the left on the track)?>>> Use Effect > Amplify. The tools on the left are a little magic and don't always affect the "real" show. USB microphones have some interesting problems. You can't actually do what they're doing -- create a high quality, digital voice s...

Chris has been good about that. His compressor uses serious look-ahead management and it has to be very carefully designed to avoid "nothing." An early version of his compressor would freak when it got to the end of a song, in effect, stepping off the end of the known world. The work-aroun...

Audacity doesn't convert well and it assumes the audio standards of the first song imported. I wouldn't be surprised if you came out OK if all your songs were imported from music CDs, but you got stuck if one of the selections was a video. Video and CDs have slightly different sampling rates. Are yo...