Audacity Forum

You know the microphone has a battery, right? Probably a silver 357 or 76 watch battery (Radio Shack). When that one goes soft, the volume goes way down and the hiss level goes up. The microphone boost in the sound card setup should have worked. That's what it's there for and we use microphones like...

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I need to generate a "clean" echo track. Getting a computer to take out echo that a computer put in may not tell us as much as is needed.

Koz

Yes, but. You can't have any tool that needs a zero start point because real life happens continuously. That's why I picked an amplitude/delay series of profiles instead of trying to rip sound apart into frequency bands or analysis characteristics. That might work with one hand clap, but might not i...

Oh they have... --Voice Trap http://www.cloneensemble.com/vt_main.htm --Extra Boy http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1651.html --Kn0ck0ut http://www.freewebs.com/st3pan0va/ It's called Vocal Isolation and there are a couple of money-based products that claim to be able to do that. One of the packages also ...

Audacity doesn't actually edit compressed files. It converts them to a very high quality uncompressed form, edits them, and then recompresses them to another, different file. Each compression step can make a file any size you want -- including bigger. MP3 export quality in Audacity 1.2 is set in the...

I know this sounds silly, but did you press Stop at the end of the performance? These are the symptoms of Audacity in Pause instead of Stop.

Koz

You can almost always track failures like this back to the $4.98 USD sound card. There is a painful work-around. Play a click track into your headphones and record a new instrument to the click track. Three minutes later re-rack the whole thing to the beginning and perform the next instrument to the...

Chances are your headphones, even though they're plugged into your external audio interface, are listening to the digital sound coming out of the computer -- late as you noticed. That's the instruction book you need to be reading to find out how to get the headphones to monitor the live sound leavin...

I don't know that I agree with the spectrum analysis part of the idea. If you have one very hard wall behind the performer, then you'll get one really clear echo. The spectrum doesn't change, just the amplitude and time. In an enclosed room, the clear echo bounces multiple times, but does not change...

<<<audacity:1.2.6 MAC OSX 10.5.8 intel Leopard>>> The first thing I would do is delete Audacity 1.2.6 and install Audacity 1.3.12 from here. http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_mac Newer Macs do not support Audacity 1.2. We can talk you through when you get that far, or you can just go with the tu...