Audacity Forum

The problem with doing this all inside one single computer is that the computer runs out of sound channels. The computer naturally has two: record and playback and Skype takes both of them. The capture programs create a virtual machine inside the computer and gets two more to capture both sides of t...

<<<It tells you the current playing or recording position.>>>

But not the current cursor position which makes it pretty much use-free for editing unless you're really good at screen capture.

Koz

Ummm. Use a video editor?

As far as I know, Audacity doesn't have an Overlay or Assemble mode or anything like that, and it doesn't keep track of edit points really well. It's a feature request.

Assembling on stacked audio tracks it is. You've met the Envelope Tool, right?

Koz

Not as easy as you think because of an editor's insistence on folding the lines that are too long. A real project looks something more like this... http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/aup1.jpg So you may be five rows down from the top, but you're still on line one. I'd pick this one because it's full of ...

<<<1st problem I can't seem to e mail projects (Small ones) to my buddy. We were wanting to send ideas to each other and record our ideas back and forth. >>> Audacity Projects are not sound files. If you do want to send a Project, it's best if you two are in exactly the same Audacity version and you...

<<<interesting to be able to read a "foreign" language.>>>

You should see the secret handshake when we meet each other.

Koz

That looks like the Sennheiser that I have. That's an analog microphone as is this one... http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/wynonna2.jpg I recently recorded a professional announcer that stood six inches from the pop filter and performed as if he was playing to the third row, fourth balcony. "NOW,...

<<<My only problem is that where some sound is clear like FM quality, when I tried to remove a hum in the background, it went all grainy. Really odd.#>>>

Perfect place to start a new post.

Koz

That is almost always a data rate mismatch and that's almost always a crappy sound card. Let's say you paid hundreds of dollars for your USB microphone. It's a pretty safe bet that your microphone is going to produce a 16-bit, 44100, Mono signal (for example) with pretty good accuracy. Nowhere is it...

The short answer is you don't. You can't remove echoes, reverb, and "slap" from a recording. The original live recording or capture is hugely important. There are a number of things you can do wrong at that step that will kill your show, this being one of them. Overloading is another. Room...