Audacity Forum

<<<it sounds like you really know what you are doing...>>>

It sounds like it, doesn't it? The company has two Academy Awards for creating illusions....

Koz

I could do that, but when do you need it? We're trying to push a medium size corporation into a new building. The weekend coming up will be a vague concept for me, not actual time off.

Koz

<<<slowly change the gain so it increases will do that. >>>

How would I do that using Audacity 1.2 tools?

Koz

Close Audacity Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input. Can you see the USB turntable or the USB chipset number listed there? Sometimes it's a series of numbers that don't make sense, but they're different from the other clear English items like "Built In Microphone," etc. If...

Windows? Recording a phone call looks like it should be easy. It's not.

So yes. Post a little of it with some of your voice and some of the caller. If you know where the built-in microphone of your laptop is, you can park the iPhone right next to it and do remarkably well.

Koz

You can also get that by running out of drive space.

Koz

MicPowerSupply.jpg MicAmpCircuit.jpg What I'll probably do if you get that far is build one completely without the box and take a picture. Note this one has an XLR3 at the end of the cable and plugs straight into a microphone mixer. No adapter. Also, there's no power switch on this one. You turn it...

Before you post, give us a head start. Windows? Which One? Laptop? Which version of Audacity exactly?

Describe the show. Rock Concert? Trying to record a phone call? Guitar strumming?

Koz

I'm working this back. Piano2.wav is 1.2MB. It's six seconds at 16-bit. Stereo, 48000. What does it drop to if someone posts 32-bit floating? We're always juggling between swamping the forum versus getting the posters to provide enough material in uncompressed form so we can chew on it. Is, like, ma...

<<<Someone said that the signal needs to be amplified before it goes into the iMac. >>> Not with a USB turntable. Those have everything built-in. You see the blue ball sound meter in System Preferences bounce when you play a record, right? So you got it that far. Open Audacity > Preferences > Audio ...