Audacity Forum

<<<...Now I suppose I can start another thread asking for best practices for premastering for vinyl in Audacity....>>>

Yes. You should.

Koz

<<<Audacity will only export a stereo file if the left and right audio channels are different. They only need to be a tiny bit different - just panning one track to the left or right by 1% will ensure that the exported file is 2 channel stereo.>>> Is that written anywhere? Suppose there's three trac...

<<<many users would think that it turned their mono track into stereo>>> Yes. So? <<<In reality it would turn a 1 channel mono track into a 2 channel mono track.>>> Or, classically in the US, Two-Track Mono. Yes. <<<It may also encourage the myth that a stereo track is required for sound to come out...

<<<we had a similar problem burnign cds>>> The question wasn't about burning CDs. The problem happened when the music was playing in Windows Media. Older CD burners had troubles with stability. Even if you used top quality, name brand, CD blanks, sometimes you had to tune the burn speed to keep all ...

<<<It placed them all in random order.>>> I bet it doesn't. I bet it placed them in computer filename order. 0 thru 9, then a thru z, etc. In that case, you can tune the filename at the export step to come out in the right order. iTunes is schizophrenic. In the general music pile, everything goes by...

The phono amplifier is plugged into the computer with the USB connector, right? Like the "A" connector here... http://www.dgahouston.com/usbplug1.htm Do you get the noise after you pull the USB plug out of the computer? Have you tried to record shows from the internet or use Skype after th...

I'm working on this. Hang in.

When you capture Dr. P, does your Audacity have two tracks like this...

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_playback.jpg
(Ignore the meters. They're custom)

Koz

<<Not sure about the electrically quiet room...>>>

I live under the neighborhood's multi-kilovolt high tensions wires. Anything I do that is at all questionable or unshielded hums. It makes for good worst case condition testing.

Koz

One good start is to tell us a recording of what? Skype phone call? YouTube sound? You playing the guitar and singing?

Koz

I'm posting a feature request for Mono Track To Stereo. Doing what you want is way too hard and error prone.

Koz