Audacity Forum

Describe your system. Shure sm58 microphone plugged into a Peavey PV6 mixer and then into the blue Line-In of your Deskside PC running Windows XP?

Hum (more like buzz, right?) can come from a lot of places depending on how you're connected and what kind of equipment you have.

Koz

I swear that didn't work at least once. Both machines are here so I'll try it again.
Thanks,
Koz

Which computer and operating system are you on?

Koz

<<<What "effect" are we talking about? (there are solutions, but they depend on exactly what you are doing)>>> If they depend on exactly what I'm doing, then the solution is not applicable. UNDO takes out all Cuts, Control-L Silence, Amplifys, HiPassFilters, Equalizers, and Levelers. It's ...

There are a couple of rules for this. -- Once you lose quality, that's it. You never get it back. The joke is converting a badly damaged MP3 to WAV to "improve it." All that will do is make the damage and distortion much clearer and waste drive space to the bargain. -- Almost all compressi...

You can do fine tuning with Effect > Amplify, but you're not doing it in percents. I mean, you can force that to happen, but you're not going to get the results you want. Ears hear in dB, not percent. If you want to produce half-volume (approximately), you will need to reduce the work about 18dB. Th...

I do forum help from two different Macs each day, sometimes reversing them several times in a 24-hour period. I have the forum "know" who my laptop is in order to auto login. It won't do that with two computers, will it?

Koz

Are you recording your voice? Recording different types of performances can have different problems.

Did you find your new home posting OK?

Koz

<<<does it matter if you use an analog cable to transfer digital data. >>> It won't make any difference. The higher quality cables allow you to go longer distances and survive greater interference without crashing. And it does crash. When you exceed the ability of the cable to carry the data, the so...

Let's take this a slightly different way.

<<<you can if you have yelled into the mic.>>>

What microphone? The one built into your computer? Did you go out and buy a new microphone? Which one?

Koz