Audacity Forum

The ability to pull one instrument out of a mix, fix it, and then put it back is a popular request. You can't do it, but it's a popular request. Crunchy instruments almost always means they were recorded too loud and they overloaded Something Somewhere. The actual microphone, the preamplifier, the l...

<<<Garbage in, garbage out. If one channel is just above the noise floor, it begs the question "Why?">>> Because that's the way the producer wanted it. I'm extraordinarily popular at work because I never cross the Producer/Engineering boundary. <<< kozikowski wrote:Changing the stereo imag...

If the sound card can't keep up, or worse is misadjusted or broken, it may record a live performance slow. Later, when you play it back, this show appears as fast or high pitch. Note in all the postings on the board, nobody ever complains about playback too slow. It's always a slow, old, or broken c...

Not like you want it to, no. Audacity supports one Sound Device at a time. People want it to record from two USB microphones at the same time and it won't do that. It's a really big step between a one microphone show and two. This is the place you need to invest in a mixer, headphones, some sort of ...

If you produced a normal stereo show, you will have two blue waves one above the other like this... http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_playback.jpg The panel on the left tells us that this is a stereo show. "Left" on top and "Right" on the bottom. Press Control-B at the beg...

Less likely the enabler than one of your plugins.

Koz

And most mixers are analog, not USB. This is one of the serious drawbacks of USB microphones. They're aggressively non-expandable. If you're on a PC (laptop or deskside) you should find a mixer with nice analog inputs and USB out. If you have a Mac, you can do that or analog in via the Stereo Line-I...

<<<Despite what koz says about 44,100 versus 48,000 (which is true), you're going to end up at 44,100 for burning to CD anyway, so why go through the additional step of sample rate conversion, which may introduce its own artifacts.>>> I agree, and it's a fine point between those two, but not so fine...

<<<how do i fix that in audacity?>>> You don't. It's too broken. This is an illustration of a normal playback... http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_playback.jpg That's my six second piano solo. Note the blue waves go up and down from the mid point which is in the middle -- zero percent in this...

I see the problem. That's zero percent, not zero dB. If you put no audio into your sound card and it records a signal that looks like that, you have a badly damaged sound card. It's putting DC or battery voltage into the sound. You can patch that in post production if the error is very, very tiny. Y...