Audacity Forum

Me and my Ampex 350 have no idea what any of you people are talking about. 48000,16-bit is the television broadcast standard. The tone level (overall average sound level) is -20dB in the US. I believe it's -18dB in Europe. That's 20dB headroom and 60dB noise floor. Any singer I ever met can blow 6dB...

Audacity Preferences > Recording > Latency didn't help? I suppose we need to split the difference between your own voice coming back to your headphones late and the composite performance being record out of sync. If you didn't hear any difference between Software Playthrough and Hardware Playthrough...

IMHO, the recording conditions in the room and the proximity to the performers and other similar damage is going to be far worse than anything the digital services is going to do to it. Are you recording this for the benefit of the performers? Audacity always works at 32-floating inside. It's a simi...

You can get that if you never pressed STOP at the end. I'm surprised it worked. The headphone out is high level stereo and most laptop Mic-In connections are very very sensitive mono. Even if you forced it to work, you're likely to get low volume, or high volume and crunchy, crackly sound. And mono....

Audacity 1.3 has tools to tune that out. Audacity 1.2 doesn't, but it does have software playthrough or hardware playthrough in the Preferences menu. Pick one or the other and see if that helps.

This is worst on shower machines. You are listening to one computer's worth of delay.

Koz

Many if not all of the versions of Audacity have Vocal Removal software either built in or readily available. That's basically what the invert and subtract trick is doing, but in a pre-built effect. You know this never works, right? It fails if the show is two-track mono, if the singer isn't in the ...

All that is perfectly correct assuming you have a large deskside PC, or a Mac. If you have a PC Laptop, chances are you can't do this at all. PC laptops mostly have very sensitive mono microphone connections and no provision for musical instruments or stereo. If you look closely at your machine, doe...

Systems Operators hate it when you double post. Should I delete the other one?

Koz

<<<You are right about the OS upgrade! I followed (flawed) advice to upgrade to Leopard . . . and have had all kinds of problems since then. I'm too deep into it now and think It's looking like time for a laptop upgrade.>>> You should be able to go back to your original machine status with the insta...

Are you on a company or corporation computer?

If not, then you may need to Repair Permissions.

Go > Utilities > Disk Utilities. Select your hard drive and do Disk Verify and Repair permissions.

Koz