Audacity Forum

<<<OK, I've paid my $29 bucks for the user manual>>> To who? Audacity and all the documentation I'm aware of is free. <<<unless I can shorten the cycle by going A2D on the LPs at 45 rpm (about 35% faster than taking them in at 33.3333 rpm) and then dropping the pitch/speed back down to 33.3, LP spee...

You can get a good first start by using the Low Pass Filter set for about 2000 or 3000. Experiment. The voice will sound more muffled as the number goes down.

Koz

Wait. It's not a minute. I think it's ten seconds. I gotta go look that up.

Koz

You want vocal isolation. I think at least one of these packages claims to be able to do that. Voice Removal or Isolation --Center Pan Remover (Voice Remover--Search the page for "Center Pan Remover") http://audacityteam.org/download/nyquistplugins --Voice Trap http://www.cloneensemble.com...

<<<How permissive should I be of an occasional red?>>> Occasional red being a VU meter red or a digital signal meter hitting "0?" US-ANSI VU meters are supposed to gently hit red on occasion. That's how they work. Digital red represents permanent destruction of the quality of the sound. Th...

I'm going with no. Audaciy 1.2 is a pretty simple program. About the best you can do is record a new segment and then cut and paste it into the existing show. It's a common newbie idea that you make shows by recording the whole thing beginning to end, tie a bow on it and go home. That only works if ...

<<<And then I want to match my voice volume to the music volume, which seems trickier.>> It's very tricky. All the effects tools work on waveform construction, not loudness. One of the advantages of the old-school US VU meters was that they did, more or less, respond to loudness in the show. The spe...

<<<I cannot open the file back up.>>> That's because it's not "a file." Audacity projects are managed by the AUP file. It's job it to point to all the other parts of your show -- all the clips, songs, snippets, and performances. It's not a sound file. You can't move the AUP, the project, o...

Exactly. MP3 is something of a violin, too. In the hands of a musician it can make grown men cry, but the "violin" setting on your keyboard might make a musician cry. In the wild, lame has hundreds of controls, settings, and variations, only one of which is bitrate -- although that is the ...

Another note. The SM58 is a directional microphone and has proximity effect. The bass goes way up when you get closer. Also called the Rock Band in a Small Club effect. The lead singer comes out and introduces the band and knocks over beer glasses in the first three tables. It's very hard to control...