Audacity Forum

<<<You say so good things about that Peavey PV6 that I'm starting to feel that I should get one>>> It's extraordinarily difficult to beat this unit. I have a very small field microphone mixer that I will shortly be posting on eBay. Yes, it's tiny and battery powered, but the power of ten less expens...

I was just thinking about this as my tea solidified. What? Doesn't your tea hold a spoon upright? Anyway a Hollywood production engineer is performing custom noise reduction on a live guitar performance capture from a hiker in Portugal using software written to task produced, I believe, in Mancheste...

<<<Anybody listen to the patched recordings I posted?>>>

I think I'm playing posting catch-up. I'll stop now.

Koz

I'm pushing one of these into testing... http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/X2u/ <<<Finally after many rainy weekends there's a beautiful sunny day so I'm going out for hiking now>>> One of my tasks is to go to the athletic shop at the beach and get my roller skates serviced. I can't face all th...

There was supposed to be a significant theatrical pause between those two statements. The +20dB Mic Boost has nothing to do with USB. The USB device handles all that very nicely by itself. The boost is important -- really important -- if you use the analog input of the sound card. It's frequently th...

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/clip ... Keypex.wav

I left the first 2-1/2 seconds of noise in there before I suppressed it. That's Noise Gate 20Hz, -15dB reduction, -35.3dB threshold.

I didn't damage that last note. The original performance stopped.

Koz

Are you filling up your hard drive? Audacity has to manage all its production effects on the hard drive and it needs room to do it. Go > Computer > Control-Click the system drive > Get INFO. Never get the system drive over 90% full and that's after you finish your show. You clicked somewhere in trac...

In Audacity Preferences, set "Play existing tracks while recording new ones," and, I think, Hardware Playthrough. That should let you listen to yourself and the old performance while you record yourself. You're computer has to be not using "Mix-Out" or "What-U-Hear." Th...

<<<I'm pretty sure I'm getting stereo.>>> The overwhelming chance is you're not. The Mic-In on a laptop is usually expecting a very tiny, delicate, wispy mono microphone signal. You are applying a powerful, line-level, Stereo signal. So you're listening to "Left" only and smashing overload...

I just cranked through an important voice recording session with a very good phantom powered microphone, my MacBook Pro and one of these...

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PV6

It has good, quiet gain, supplies headphone connections, and +48v Phantom.

Koz