Audacity Forum

You happened to step into the longest continuous forum thread, I believe, in its history.

Koz

The problem with acoustic guitar is that unlike, say trumpet or bugle which are OSHA hearing hazards at close range, guitars don't have very much punch. The lack of punch or volume is where cheap microphones fall apart. By the time you get the microphone far enough away from the instrument to avoid ...

Outside recording may require a dead cat. http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/DeadCat/ Also known as furry animal on a stick and "Wookie." You can do this with "Acoustic Foam" treatments, but they almost all have muffling effects on the sound. Learned papers have been written ...

When you start into heavy track management (editing) it's good to make protection copies of your show. Any time you play an instrument to capture in the computer, Export As WAV and make at least one copy of the performance on a thumb drive or external drive -- or data CD or data DVD. You can save pr...

You can do some pretty amazing track manipulation, adding and subtracting tracks, cutting, pasting, and moving music earlier and later -- in Audacity 1.3.12. http://audacityteam.org/download/ You can install both versions, but only use one at a time. Audacity 1.3 projects will not open in 1.2. Add a...

<<<Please PM me if you would like to volunteer.>>> What action should I take if I don't want to volunteer? I'm answering a question on this technique and my posting can be assumed to be a bad, incomplete, possibly erroneous, potentially temporary, beta, first-pass instruction set. http://forum.audac...

Excellent, but No "S" and "T"?

OIC. Work In Progress. 'The Next Page' is on top.

Koz

<<<generally only allow create-label-by-typing if the label track is also selected.>>> That seems OK. No track, no damage. <<<This allows a user to click in the blank Track Panel background (unselecting all tracks, but leaving the label track focused) to get regular shortcuts back.>>> If that gives ...

Very left-brain. All these systems work by you already knowing what you want. This is walking into the Tesco and selecting "Milk" and an opaque tunnel is created directly to the milk cooler and back that doesn't let you view anything else. Look at what The World News has on the front page....

<<<Yep, just a simple direct line in.>>> Probably not. Are you working on a Windows Laptop? Most Windows laptops are configured for a mono microphone connection, not a high level, stereo Line-In connection. But if you got it to work, that's what's important. Create a simple, short first track for te...