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Koz

You get it from the numbers on the bottom of the graph. An octave is half or double. An octave up from A-440 (oboe at the beginning of the orchestra) is A-880. There are a number of hearing anomalies when you start to dig in this stuff. People hear a "middle" tone at A-440 but on a linear ...

<<<not sure why dynamics of choir are that important
if the priest is booming the thing into clipping>>>

He also said the dynamics of the choir are the goal. The priest is collateral damage.

Koz

<<<1. What is the bitrate equivalence between MP3 and WMA?>>> There isn't one. They're based on very different technologies. Windows Media is much the newer and based on MPEG4/h.264 compression algorithms and technologies. MP3's real name isn't "MP3." It's MPEG1, Layer 3 and it's over 20 y...

<<<plugged the mic into the mic port,>>>

Wait. You said you plugged the Carvin mixer into your computer.

Koz

Here's a related thread about 32-bit execution.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 87&start=0

Koz

Here's one thread.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... +to+32+bit

Koz

<<<Apparently Audacity is running some kind of filter over the wav files as it exports and imports them. >>> You could say that. What's it's actually doing is converting everything to 32-bit floating and then back. And no, you're not the first person to notice that. I'm looking for for the earlier t...

If you changed settings, did you restart your machine?

I have a license for Total Recorder and that gets along with Vista, and probably Win7 by now.

You can try to work at this upside down. Can you make a clean recording from your built-in microphone?

Koz

I don't think you do in Audacity 1.2. Audacity 1.3 has Append Recording and allows you to extend your single timeline with additional show material. You can safely have both versions on your machine as long as you only use one at a time. Audacity 1.3 Projects will not open in 1.2. Audacity 1.3.11 is...