Audacity Forum

OK just so we're all singing the same song, you open up a sound file and it looks something like this... http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/AudacityPanelStandard.jpg ...but you open an old project and what parts are missing? Do you get the two thin "0.0" horizontal lines but no blue waves? Is ...

Mic-In on most Windows laptop computers is the only analog connection the machine has. It's mono. There are also distortion problems with using this connection for a show other than a microphone. Most people stuck with this problem pop for a Stereo USB sound card like the UCA202. http://forum.audaci...

No, wait. Mixer Toolbar.

Koz

In 1.3.12, it's View > Toolsbars > Meter Toolbar.

Koz

I hope to goodness you're in Audacity 1.3.12. Earlier Audacity versions make some of these jobs really awkward. Open up both songs -- in two different windows of Audacity if you need to. Copy from one and paste into the other. A fine variation is start a new timeline in the "finished" show...

<<<of course if you keep the vinyl you might be able to redigitise them if you want to use all that time up again>>> Which is getting more and more difficult to do well. The USB turntables on the market now are pretty poor players and those of us with full-on turntables and preamps are getting scarc...

Not to snap this back to the original thread...

Steve wrote a terrific noise gate...

http://forum.audacityteam.org/download/file.php?id=1272

Koz

Behold the problem of posting in a generic forum.

Which Audacity are you using? I think the silence and sound finders in Audacity 1.3.12 may have such tuning tools.

Koz

Audacity 1.3 hadn't been "beta" experimental/unstable for a long time. If you're on a newer Mac, Audacity 1.2 doesn't work at all. We have no choice.

Koz

Did you try the silent track trick?

Koz