Audacity Forum

The most common cause of a miss between playback and record speed is the sound card. The Electronics that make the digital sound from your voice and the electronics that play it back are different. Unless you're a musician, you'll go through life never knowing they're different. Latency is the same ...

<<<Can I just move the file back to the recorder?>>> Probably. UNIX operating systems and OS-X is one, don't know what a hard drive or storage thing is. They treat everything like a mounted file system -- a directory or folder. /Volumes is the mount point for drives on a Mac. So you could create tha...

OK, so it's a capture problem. You are almost certainly recording the wrong thing. Go into your Windows Sound Panels and I bet you're either recording Mix-Out, What-U-Hear, or the computer built-in microphone. All will sound pretty dreadful. Windows Control Panel http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.p...

<<<Recorded audio no problem converter to mp3 no problem>>> Let's take that item. You capture the live work and play it in Audacity and it doesn't have the echo? Are you sure? Export As WAV instead of MP3, close everything, open it all back up again and see if that file sounds OK. Do you know what h...

I always wondered about this, What happens after you destroy your registry and Windows will no longer start? You're holding a perfect, correct, clear backup of the registry on a CD in your hand. Now what? I make images of the whole Mac System Drive and I've been known to need to restore them after a...

S/PDIF is a close cousin to AES/EBU television sound. Try resetting Audacity to 48000/16-bit/Stereo (restart Audacity) and see if that doesn't help. Also go into Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input and see how that volume meter is doing. If that one is pinned, then there is somethi...

With the additional complication that there are two sound tracks. Dolby Surround and PCM Stereo. Some have a mixdown third option. I've never tried this, but I believe the Sound Capture programs all work -- Total Recorder, WireTap, SoundFlower, etc. Movie DVDs were designed at a time when you could ...

We tell people they can't change anything once they Save a Project. You can't email your project to your mum, you can't clean up all those messy sound files in a nice neat (new) folder, etc. Projects are insanely brittle. When you get far enough along with your show, Export As WAV, and yes, do use a...

Exported sample rate is set with the Project Rate at the lower left of the editing window.

Koz

It doesn't work like that. Waveform cancellation only works when the exact lumps and valleys in the blue waveforms match. Even if a trumpet plays the same measures in exactly the same rhythm, the vibration of the lips on the mouthpiece is going to be different. That's where the cancellation comes fr...