Audacity Forum

Does anything change if you clean start the machine? Shift+Shutdown > Wait > Start. Did the problem get either better or worse?

Koz

When Audacity edits sound, the first thing it does is convert the sound to its own super high quality (large) format. Then it can save whole versions of the song as you edit. How much room do you have on the drive and how many other things are running on your machine? Running out of memory? Do you u...

Maybe I got one.


Regard #2. There are three microphones in there for the different patterns and directions. One of them could be fried.

Mess with the pattern selector on the back.

Koz

Did you offend some deity in the last couple of weeks? Test High Pitch has an almost perfect Left channel except you're too close to the microphone and your Ps are popping. Easy fix. The Right channel is a disaster. If somebody paid me to make that happen, I wouldn't know where to start. Do you have...

The microphone and recording system should deliver a clean, pure voice which may have a slight tonal imbalance or might be the wrong volume. That's it. Your Yeti, past anything else being broken, starts the day in disaster recovery. This is from a small, stand-alone sound recorder in a very quiet ro...

I can't take credit for "designing" anything.

You're tarnishing your halo. Just go with it.

Koz

I've never heard one that bad. That's "Yeti Curse." That's the USB data stream interfering with the USB 5 volt battery system, both in the cable. Normally, the computer produces 5 volts to run things like your mouse or keyboard. It's supposed to be pure, clean 5 volts DC "Battery"...

Missed a spell. Before you start recording, Save an Audacity Project. That presets all the caches and file structures and saves a lot of fuss and management.

If you can't easily do that nearly instantly, then that's a very serious problem.

Koz

the recording level indicator shows up immediately but only starts recording after about 10 seconds. Are you sure? If you time it, does the actual recording start ten seconds late? Or is the screen display late and the recording is OK? Solid State Drive? How much room? Do you have a Drive Activity ...

we don't have access to their robot. No, but their published standards are clear both loudness and noise is measured in RMS. so back to my question: "If you needed a very reliable measurement of the noise floor in a recording, how would you do it? (any tools / any software is allowed)" Co...