Audacity Forum

Yes, That's the whole setup. Play some of a test back and make sure it isn't doing something else wrong. Nothing like getting back from a gig and find you have perfect peaks but the show, for some reason sounds like trash. Audacity will not save a sound file. To get a sound file, you have to export ...

Nobody ever wants to spend any money on surveillance systems, so I can't imagine they would be very expensive. Probably not Open-Source, however, since only cool and sexy becomes open source, and surveillance isn't cool or sexy.

Google time.

Koz

I do multiple 2-hour recordings every week. You need to have room on your computer. One hour of recording can take up almost 1GB of space and you need lots of room over that. Does the PA have a Line-Out, Tape-Out, or, in pinch, Headphone-Out? You can't bridge the speaker feeds. That will blow the la...

No, but you're not that far off. The laptop is expecting a tiny, delicate, wispy, mono microphone signal, not the powerful, stereo signal from the amp or mixer. You can bridge the gap with one of the USB sound cards we reviewed. You can probably use the UCA-202. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtop...

At the other end of the scale, you can't move Audacity Projects for the same reason.

Koz

Not so much data files. If you used an external sound file in your show, then that sound file must stay right there and in that name forever -- or until you export a sound file of the show.

Audacity doesn't pull sound into itself for editing, but you can force it to do that in preferences.

Koz

Qualified yes. What kind of laptop, how long is the gig, and what is the gig? Are you recording the laptop built-in microphone?

Getting from an acoustic sting quartet into Audacity is a college level course in mixers and microphones.

Koz

You are the classic job for a surveillance program, not an audio production program. Review while capturing, auto rotation and auto archiving.

Koz

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That one puts Audacity out of the running. You don't get a sound file until you stop the program and export one.

Koz

Zero dB is 'pass the show with no interference.' -30dB (or lower) is quiet. So you want quiet from the far left to about 300 or so, then rise to 0dB and stay there until about 3000, then sink back down to -30dB for the rest of the graph. Ideally, you would want lower than 30, like -40dB or so. Can't...