Audacity Forum

One of the problems of boiling your own filter is defining the terms. Hum and buzz does not go 60, 120. It goes 60, 180. Odd harmonics -- and then, of course, only in 60 Hz power countries. And at the risk of taking away the punchbowl in the middle of the party (see: curmudgeon), we assume that the ...

<<<I'm getting the PA on headphones plugged into the computer, >>>

Do you only hear that when Audacity is running, or your hear music whether Audacity is running or not?

Koz

<<<Nah, I am defo plugged into the line in and not the mic in.>>> We'll have to take your word on that, but most [Windows] laptops do not have High-Level, Stereo Line-In. They're designed to work with the tiny mono microphone signal from a communications headset. Since you have sound and distortion ...

<<<Ok that makes sense on recording audio from web separately but any idea how?>>> That's a fairly common request. Some of the newer computers make it difficult, but it's a snap if yours has all the tools available. You have to trick the sound card into playing (the internet) and recording (to Audac...

Audio CDs will not automatically stop at the end of one "song." However, what you can do is produce the sound effect and then, in Audacity, add silence at the end to give you the chance to stop the playback from going on to the next sound effect. "End" the cursor after you produc...

What you're supposed to do is reduce the volume of all the tracks so that even though you use boosting, management, or filters, the end show doesn't go over zero. Zero dB is a cutoff point. Once you go over that, there's little or no chance of escaping without damage. If you do all of your productio...

All of the fancy-pants sound management tricks work from a stereo track. No stereo, no tricks.

You can't separate instruments or voices in this case from a mixed performance.

Koz

Yes, I've done that, too, but only to make up for a very serious mismatch somewhere. You should be able to adjust the level on your sound card -- or in Audacity itself -- to avoid overload and distortion. A very few people have a Tape Out or Line-Out that's so powerful it can't be used. If you can't...

<<<but can you do a little girl ?>>>

There are people in the company who can do that, but I'm not one of them. This is the answer to only half of the poster's question.

Koz

You can go into Audacity Preferences and set Hardware Playthrough. Restart Audacity. That should send your live voice back to your headphones. If that fails, deselect Hardware and select Software Playthrough. Restart Audacity. Software Playthrough almost always works, but your voice comes back to yo...