Audacity Forum

Noise removal is much more graceful and effective in Audacity 1.3 than 1.2.

Koz

You are almost certainly recording the wrong thing -- like the built in microphone.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... e_computer

<<<Recently, I had to re-install everything on my computer.>>>

Why?

Koz

Yes. Whole worlds open up when you throw money.

Koz

Nice try. All these tools work perfectly when you start with a show whose technical specifications far exceed what you think you really need. For example, Music CD specifications are 44100, 16-bit, Stereo. That's fine if you never need to do production on the music. If you do, the musical quality fa...

One more. As you start making system level Audacity changes, restart Audacity each time to make the new settings stick.

Koz

Listening to your own voice while recording is handled not by Latency (that deals with the match between the old and new recorded track) but "playthrough." In Audacity Preferences, you can select hardware or software playthrough. Hardware playthrough typically has little or no delay but no...

Download and put this short performance in Audacity... http://www.kozco.com/tech/LRMonoPhaset4.wav It's my single voice only on the left, only on the right, mixed to mono, and then intentionally damaged so left and right are out of phase or inverted to each other. Magnify the blue waves of each one ...

If you magnify the blue waves on the timeline enough times, you eventually get down to the up and down motion representing the vibration of the strings of a musical instrument or the vibration of the air when you sing. Stereo works by presenting two waves, one for left and the other for right. Any i...

Did you find the 32-bit setting? That one's famous for causing problems. Preferences > Quality?

Koz

That's very interesting. 1.3.7 did not do all the crazy plug-in management, so it's clearly something else. Are you doing all this on one (1) machine? Did you buy and put the memory sticks in this machine? Have you run a memory checker? http://www.memtestosx.org/joomla/index.php As I recall when I l...