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by kozikowski
Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:22 pm
Forum: General Feedback and Discussion
Topic: Does Anyone Still Listen to Vinyl Records?
Replies: 18
Views: 6628

Re: Does Anyone Still Listen to Vinyl Records?

<<<Throughout North America AFAIK. I've "heard tell" that the electric utility made sure that the frequency of the AC averaged 60Hz over the day to make sure that clocks kept correct time.>>> At each daylight savings time change, all my power line synchronized clocks are never off more tha...
by kozikowski
Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:35 am
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: Recording Quality
Replies: 12
Views: 2041

Re: Recording Quality

<<<I have a 250gig portable Maxtor Hard Drive I might try incorporating it into my projects to take the weight off the computer.>>> But only if the external connection is fast enough, and external drives get fragmented, too. If you have an early, slow USB style connection, you may be just trading on...
by kozikowski
Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:31 am
Forum: Recording Equipment
Topic: budget (usb) mic for classical guitar recording needed
Replies: 175
Views: 54570

Re: budget (usb) mic for classical guitar recording needed

<<<it won't solve the problem of connecting 2 mics...>>> No matter how you slice it, connecting two or more microphones puts you in mixer territory. We have been very pleased with these Peavey mixers. http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PV6 I haven't gotten to it yet, but I think there is a way t...
by kozikowski
Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:06 am
Forum: Mac OS X
Topic: Does not register/pick up my mic... help
Replies: 3
Views: 848

Re: Does not register/pick up my mic... help

<<<but actually i just figured it out. thanks Bill!>>>

You're welcome, but this forum is a dialog. What did you do to get it working?

Koz
by kozikowski
Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:02 am
Forum: Mac OS X
Topic: Record Player won't play through Mac
Replies: 9
Views: 3381

Re: Record Player won't play through Mac

We should be clear that you can successfully record an album without hearing a thing. Convenience loudspeaker monitoring is just that, a convenience. Do you get the Audacity red recording meters jumping when you play the record? It doesn't matter what you hear.

Koz
by kozikowski
Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:51 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Missing Part of Song
Replies: 5
Views: 621

Re: Missing Part of Song

You have some of the symptoms of an odd playback problem, or maybe broken wire. Pull down and play the Left-Right-Mono sound track from here... http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html It's a simple sound track that will do a quick test for your speakers. The last segment is intentionally damaged a...
by kozikowski
Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:43 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Weak right channel
Replies: 3
Views: 556

Re: Weak right channel

That's a little rough. Many USB microphones automatically arrive either full stereo or aggressively mono depending on software drivers (or lack of them). Did the microphone come with a software package and did you load it? Is there a microphone control panel somewhere? I guess you could dig in the W...
by kozikowski
Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:32 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Migrating files to new hard drive
Replies: 8
Views: 1044

Re: Migrating files to new hard drive

Not so fast. Did you get both listings? Note in this graphic that piano2.wav appears twice, the top one for left and the bottom one for right.

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/aup1.jpg

Koz
by kozikowski
Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:28 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Recording while playing live!
Replies: 8
Views: 634

Re: Recording while playing live!

You have the Stereo output of the mixer connected to the Mono Microphone Input of the computer, right?

Most Windows laptops don't accept a Stereo audio connection. You might add one of the USB external sound cards to do this.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477

Koz
by kozikowski
Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:37 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Migrating files to new hard drive
Replies: 8
Views: 1044

Re: Migrating files to new hard drive

<<<My first guess is that the project master file (the .aup) contains a file path that points it to the source data, and that by copy-pasting to a new hard drive I have changed that file path.>>> Darn good guess, and that's what happens if you use external sound clips in your show. You are probably ...