Audacity Forum

This test clip was recorded on my bed to get the echo reduction and with a very old ribbon microphone into a small pro field sound mixer and directly into my PowerBook Line-In. http://www.kozco.com/tech/LRMonoPhaset4.wav The only production that was done to it is the muting left and right and the od...

What are your Audacity Preferences set to? Numbers like 44100, 16-bit, Stereo?
Koz

That's OK. Leave it here. And please don't post pages and pages of diagnostics unless we ask for it. The forum isn't that big. The hamsters in the back room have a hard time keeping up. The sample sound that I got was roughly 50 times lower in volume than it should be. That's about -30dB on good, en...

Sorry. One more. This isn't complicated enough yet.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... =10#p34670

Koz

The first thing we need to deal with is the Version. You mention Audacity 1.3 and yet you posted in the Audacity 1.2 forum which is it? If you're using Audacity 1.2, you probably shouldn't be. If you have an Intel Mac with Leopard (OS-X 10.5) there is no stable Audacity 1.2. The only production vers...

Given a Microsoft 3000 Wireless mouse connected to a Mac Mini, OS-X 10.4.11, Audacity 1.3.7. Scrollwheel by itself moves the timeline contents up and down. Option(Alt) + Scrollwheel also moves the timeline contents up and down. Shift + Scrollwheel doesn't do a thing. Control + Scrollwheel causes the...

Assuming you're on a PC (you didn't say)... Edit > Preferences > File Formats > MP3 Export Setup > (Pick your encoding number) > OK. I would restart Audacity to make sure the change sticks. Try several several numbers and listen to the show on a good sound system or good headphones. There's no absol...

<<<when i record it , on audacity i try playing it back>>>

If you didn't record it in Audacity, how did you record it?

Koz

<<<If you create an empty track>>> How? Do the generators work? Generate > Noise...etc. Audacity 1.2 used to do that whether or not you had any show on the timeline. You always had to select something. 1.3 and up should automatically select the whole show before application. What Effect were you try...

<<<I've tried changing mics >>> From that we assume you're trying to record an external microphone. Many sound cards now have Auto Volume Control which does things like you're experiencing. It's almost always on a control panel somewhere so you can turn it off. If you're feeding a very high sound le...