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We aren't going to get much past hello until this step works. Audacity gets its show from the Mac, not the device. So both the UCA200 and the UCA202 do the same thing -- basically nothing? Do you see them in the panel along with built-in microphone or built-in input? Read me the items in the Input m...

Plug either one into your Mac. Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input. Do you see the device or a USB device you can't identify? Select it and make sure the level slider is turned up. Play music through the system and see if the little blue ball sound meter jumps. If not, put a straig...

<<<a dish mic or shotgun mic (for which I have no need as I would like to record all the sound at once, not just a single bird).>>> That's not what it does. Neither of those microphones will give you a single bird. What they're good at is gathering enough volume from the flock so the microphone can ...

<<<amplitude of the wave at the moment the cymbal is struck to obtain a figure for the volume >>> I thought we had all missed the point here. Volume is the difference between the + and the - values. You can't get anything close to a volume measurement with just one or the other number. You get into ...

<<<Recently I recorded a vocal cover of a favorite song of mine in Audacity.>>> Immediately after a live capture, Export As WAV and make a safety copy. No matter how much of a hole you dig yourself after that, you can always go back to the copy (on a thumb drive or external drive) and not have to si...

You can use the label tool. Identify the first note of the first song and set a label at that point. Control-B, maybe? After the end of the song, set a new label at the beginning of the portion you don't want. Label the beginning of song two, beginning of the trash, song three, etc. Export > Multipl...

Here's another thought experiment. Say you held a piece of printer paper up in front of somebody's face like you want them to read a message on the paper. Now bring the paper closer and farther away by a couple of inches or so, generating slight high and low pressure zones between the paper and the ...

It doesn't mean anything which is the down side of using percent instead of dB for editing. It is roughly percent. "1" is 100% of the allowable volume in either direction. So 0.5 is really 50% and so on. You need up and down, positive and negative because sound vibration goes in both direc...

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Koz

<<<your direction were particularly detailed and easy to follow. It worked!>>> Be sure and also follow the direction where he told you to upgrade to Audacity 1.3.12. There are some serious shortcomings with the older Audacity 1.2. http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_mac If you're on a modern Mac, ...