Audacity Forum

<<<if it is just the marantz and built in mikes i see your solution >>> His original question was clear that he could not mic the priest and the other performers individually. This implies one microphone or the mics inside the Marantz. <<<but this is all moot as choirboy seems to have disappeared>>>...

If you used outside sound files as part of your show, then all the outside sound files have to exist, too, and in their original locations, names, and folders. Audacity, unless you changed it, does not pull sound files into itself for editing. It leaves them wherever they happened to be living and r...

<<<but a mixing board in front of it >>> Cool. I'm betting this particular case will be hard pressed to afford two microphones in addition to the existing laptop and Marantz. We brought up the mixer, not him. We don't know that he's not using the built-in microphones in the Marantz. I'm peeling the ...

You can probably go a long way just by changing Audacity Preferences to 44100, 16-bit, Stereo. Restart Audacity. Audacity 1.2 factory defaults sometimes have trouble connecting to external devices.

Koz

<<<our board has sound reinforcement out to the power amp as well as simultaneously recording to some sort of hard disk gadget that can burn cds later>>> My impression of the poster is a Marantz, a laptop and you're done. Wait.... Doesn't the Marantz have two microphone inputs? Would this not be a g...

Windows machines need a CD Authoring Program to recognize the disk and prepare the music for burning. I use Nero, Veritas, Easy CD Creator, and iTunes. That and CD-R disks make the best home-burned disks. You can try CD-RW and the other variations, but some music players may not recognize them. Koz

<<<Or write a suggestion to map stereo inputs to either channel, or both (a software mono switch) in 1.3 since USB can't handle it!>>> Yes, but we send many more people to the Supported Hardware thread than the Improve Audacity thread. <<<Or a suggestion to put the Vista/Windows 7 file open dialog b...

<<<essentially it's a line output from the 802 to the fast track, which handles either mic or line inputs.>>> Oh. "Y" cable time. <<<BTW, I enjoyed your thread on Chris's compressor...I was looking long and far for something like that.>>> Which one? I've been raving about his package for a...

<<<reproduces the notch exactly as I want it.>>> It's still not a notch filter. A notch filter has one peak at the bottom at one frequency. A band reject filter has a defined attenuation at a range of frequencies which is your goal. It's possible the other software package found it convenient to ext...

That's a good one. You can't "Y" the microphone. Or you can, but you might easily affect the sound. It's a USB mixer, so you can't mess with the cables between the mixer and the computer. If you're in Audacity 1.3.11, you should be able to easily split the tracks and copy the live one to t...