Audacity Forum

The Audacity tools wake up from First Birthday set for editing, cutting, and effects. If you need to do sound analysis, you need to change the tools around a bit so see what you're doing. If you do extensive high-loudness work, then Waveform dB will be almost useless to you because all the work will...

Do you have a laptop and do you know if you have a microphone in your laptop?

Koz

<<<Those look great. Any chance you guys know a pre-done filter? I searched but didn't find anything (at least not with my search terms).>>> Try the Leveler set to maximum -- maybe more than once. Then apply the equalizer or high pass filter set to 400 or so. All this in Audacity 1.3.11. There is no...

A note. The train announcement would come from a speaker relatively close to you and would be mixed with natural train noises -- assuming everything is moving. The platform announcement would have the echo on it, reflections from the long platform. The script writers would have a man do the announce...

And Audacity is the only thing misbehaving, right?

Audacity > Preferences > Audio I/O

Is that set right? The speaker icon slider on the main work window is turned up?

Koz

Were you recording from the internet? If you have Mix-Out selected in your Windows Control Panels, it's really easy to get feedback and odd noises when you're finished recording. You can turn the record level down or deselect Mix-Out in the Windows Control Panels. Windows Control Panel http://audaci...

Missed a step. You're using a USB connection, so you won't need the Line-In, but you still need the Phono Preamplifier somewhere.

Koz

Is there a "Phono-In" listed anywhere in that system? A straight, non digital turntable will not plug directly into a sound system. Sound on a record is intentionally damaged slightly to fit in the grooves. A Phono Preamplifier takes the damage out and boosts the sound. Most living room en...

OK. I got the track. Those bumping and clicking noises are clearly visible in the Waveform dB setting and they're always visible on the -60dB sound meters. They're only on the left and there is otherwise a good background hiss level. Not so much on the right which has a relatively high hiss level, b...

<<<Looks like a bug to me.>>> It will look like a bug to us when two or three hundred other people complain about the same thing. I couldn't access your test. Do the sound meters move during the noise? The sound meters will indicate sounds much more quiet than the blue waves. You can reset the blue ...