Audacity Forum

Are you on a newer Intel Mac with Leopard or Snow Leopard (OS-X 10.5, OS-X 10.6)? Those Macs do not support Audacity 1.2. Download and install Audacity 1.3.11 or 1.3.12, whichever is current. http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_mac You can install both versions as long as you only use one at a tim...

You should probably investigate a surveillance system. There's no really good reason Audacity can't record for multiple hours, but there are some practical limitations. The machine can't be doing anything else and should not have any other programs on it that could conflict with Audacity -- Skype co...

We have enough to go on. You are overloading the microphone input of the sound card. There is a small, sensitive amplifier before the volume control on the sound card, so large signals will overload it (the 0.5 thing) and there isn't anything you can do. The Mic-In of the sound card is expecting a t...

This device is a controller or control surface for a Digital Audio Workstation and unless you already have a DAW (you'll know because of the amount of money it cost), that part isn't going to do anything. It's very difficult to get Audacity to record multi-track live -- particularly if the device us...

<<<That one with the LM317 sounds interesting.>>> It seems overkill to me, and I don't see how they're getting rid of rapid charge and discharge. Although that circuit would do it. Initially, I couldn't see where they were getting enough DC to run everything, the monolithic regulator needs at least ...

<<<are you now happy with using the Amplify effect to do that?>>>

Amplify isn't enough. It will not go over 50dB -- at least the one I'm using won't.

Koz

<<<Also, in the original track there is a slight "bump" sound just after the note stops (your hand on the guitar?) which has disappeared in the Keypex version.>>> But not all of the versions. The one before this one had a different threshold of noise sensing and the bump came through. I ch...

Phantom power isn't all that crazy, but you do need to pay attention to a couple of items... http://www.jensen-transformers.com/as/as016.pdf This is a very nice way to design a microphone input system and it's next circuit is one of their transformers. http://www.jensen-transformers.com/as/as017.pdf...

<<<Definitely useful doing this as it appears that there is an undocumented change in Nyquist which means that the Noise Gate effect is not compatible with Audacity 1.3.11!>>> That would go right around me. I'm doing this in 1.3.7. And yes, that's why I wanted at least one long slow note decay at th...

<<<It will play on my CD player (burned to a CD) which won't play any type of compressed format.>>> No, but you had to go through a Music CD Authoring Program before you got the physical Music CD and those automatically translate the outside world to standard Music CD format. They have no choice. If...