Audacity Forum

Windows machine are business computers and many times come from the factory set for SKYPE or video conferencing. They have various tools like echo cancellation, noise suppression, or automatic volume control. This isn't good when you're trying to record your singing voice. Dig through Windows Contro...

Windows, right? It's really easy to get multiple pathways running on a Windows machine and having too many pathways open in Audacity doesn't help much. Assume you've followed all the instruction in the wiki page... http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer You can, as...

<<<Sometimes this is also the kind of moment in the recording that you might hear my breathing...>>>

There was a posting on the forum from someone looking for a way to filter all those out.

Bad. Idea.

Koz

You may be messing about with a microphone in a hallway. We're preparing your clips for commercial release.

Koz

<<<I can't see any peak at 100Hz...>>> You may not. I think he's hearing it. On the spectrum, it would not necessarily look like a "haystack" at 100 Hz. It may be nothing more than a relatively out of balance blob of energy at about 100Hz compared with the rest of the spectrum. It wouldn't...

<<<Just spent a while recording a song, and I'm not sure if aud crashed or not but i dont remember it happening.>>> That's not much to pin a diagnosis on. You sung your song and played your guitar and then.....what? You suddenly realized Audacity was not responding? Did you press Stop after your per...

You need to be compulsive with supplying information. Your USB microphone made by who? Model numbers? Windows Vista on your Lenovo Laptop computer?

Pretend I'm going out with a credit card to buy your system, although you don't have to get down to number of bytes of RAM.

Koz

<<<I've tried dragging to the trash but it doesn't get rid of anythinh. >>>

Describe in detail how you know it didn't work, remembering I can't see your machine.

Koz

I need to look again, but Intel Macs take Audacity 1.2.5, not 1.2.6. http://audacityteam.org/download/ Then, after you get that settled, pay attention if you get the urge to upgrade to Leopard or Snow Leopard. (OS-X 10.5 and 10.6). Neither of those supports Audacity 1.2. You'll need to pull down and...

Close doesn't work. That picks up too much accidental trash and doesn't sound right. Who listens with their ear closer than a foot/300mm away from a guitar opening? There's a sweet spot between too far away/slightly dull and too close and mechanical or off tonal balance.

Koz