Audacity Forum

The housekeeping that Audacity is doing on opening a long file isn't affecting the music. That's Audacity creating the blue waves so you can edit. It has to build a picture of each of several million sample points in your show -- worse if it's a multi-channel show. Those blue waves are a graphic sys...

That's a little out of our line. Audacity is a sound editing and management program and it doesn't do conversions very well.

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Koz

When you do tricks like this, the volume of all the performances adds up and can distort. Apply Effect > Amplify and take everything down 10dB before you start production. You can bring it back up later.

Koz

If they are exactly the same, you maybe able to use a trick to make this work instead of cutting and pasting. If you load two tracks one above the other (Open/Import), Audacity will play both of them at once. Use the Envelope tool (two white arrows and bent blue line) to decrease the volume from one...

I'm sorry. I read that four times. You have two stereo WAV files, one with multiple instruments plus guitar and the other with just the instruments. You want to extract the guitar. Did I get that? You can try the waveform cancellation method, but if either or both tracks are MP3, that's not going to...

Did anybody try to push you off to Audacity 1.3.11 yet? You should upgrade. Audacity 1.2 hasn't been supported or developed in a very long time. You can install both of them, but you can only use one at a time. Audacity 1.3 projects will not open in 1.2.

Koz

You didn't feel like messin' with that Delta Audio thing in the other post?

Koz

If you're plugging into a Windows laptop, chances are really good you're plugging into a Microphone Connection or Mic-In. Those are mono as well as easily overloaded. Windows Laptops (as a rule) do not have the ability to record high-level, Stereo Line-In. If you're on a Mac or a deskside machine, y...

<<<you tried to suck the microphone diaphragm out of its casing and into the harmonica.>>>

Which can make for a pretty dramatic performance...once.

Koz

You know you posted in the Windows User forum, right, not Compiling Audacity?

Koz