Audacity Forum

I'm reminded of a podcast we reviewed a while ago. I singled out one of the performers who clearly should not be doing theatrical voice work. The actor turned out to be the producer who wrote to us asking for help. [Booming Kettle Drum Sound] I told him as a theatrical actor, he was a terrific Produ...

<<<I would think if you want the beeb to pick it up you would need broadcast quality not podcast quality>>> Not always. We're generating a history of producers getting an idea from a "home" podcast and upgrading it to a formal theatrical release. It helps if you're polished at the start, b...

To record the high quality service internal to the computer, you need to be recording "Mix-Out" or "What-U-Hear." You are recording the built-in microphone and yes, that's usually terrible. There's no other variation. You need to set the Windows Control Panel for this service. If...

<<<you could get **marginally** better results -- if the tapes were really good to start with -- by using higher sample rates and bit depths>>> Although sound quality would be a bit better, that's not the main reason to use high quality sound standards. The higher bitrates and depths survive special...

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This is me writing that down.

Koz

<<<2) My budget is: less than $1 under $10 under $1oo under $1000 under $10000>>> See? This is probably why you got lost so fast. Each one of those ascending steps gets you closer to a Network Studio Production -- assuming that's what you want. I'd still do one one into the built-in microphone and t...

The down side is the proximity effects. The sound you get is the same as if somebody whispered into your ear from two inches away. I've seen people get around that with a "cheek tube" -- a microphone that's not right in front of the lips. The TED lectures have people wearing that. I can't ...

In analog systems, you'd be getting sum and difference frequencies. It's picket fencing. View two picket fences one in front of the other and with different numbers of boards. The "wave" you see from across the street is the difference between the two numbers of boards. You get into the br...

This is where I get into trouble since I'm not a Windows elf. Windows laptops can have three problems. -- Many of them have no Stereo Audio In -- Line-In. They have provision for connecting a mono microphone, but that's the ball game. You can solve that with one of the fine USB sound devices we revi...

Given you posted in the Windows forum, you're far more likely to experience damage just getting a good clear show into the computer than you are worrying about bit rates and sample frequencies. Windows machines actively campaign against success. They're business computers and if you have a modern la...