Audacity Forum

More. The drummer needs to record a click lead-in so everybody starts in perfect time. He/She hits the rim of the snare in perfect song beat before the first musical note. Tick, tick, tick, tick, music. You can cut it off later. What's why it's called editing. Since you're obviously going to be the ...

When the grownups do it, they have separate, soundproofed rooms and lots of microphones and an eight foot long mix console. The reason they do that is to be able to customize each part of the performance for maximum benefit -- in close to real time. You can do something similar, it would just take l...

<<<on Mac I don't know.>>> There are Linux weenies at work that do all the system setup on their PowerBooks in Terminal. ===================================== Last login: Fri Jun 19 18:15:52 on console Welcome to Darwin! jimmy:~ koz$ ls -al total 64 drwxr-xr-x 21 koz koz 714 Jun 19 18:16 . drwxrwxr-...

<<<I'm having trouble importing my songs into iTunes in the right order.>>> They don't come into iTunes in the "right" order. You can only change the order after you start a PlayList. A playlist can contain your songs in any order along with any songs from any other iTunes album -- up to 8...

<<<(no doubt Koz will correct me if I'm wrong).>>> No, but there may be a more straightfoward thing to try first. Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input See if your device shows up there. It may not say "FireBox", but it may say the name of the maker of the internal chipset ...

<<<I then recorded to a CD. >>> I'm going in a different direction. You didn't use enough words there. "I exported my show to a 44100, 16-bit, Stereo WAV file, imported that into Roxio Easy CD Creator Music CD authoring software and followed the instructions to burn a Music CD." What part ...

<<<and then I opened up a track in it. >>> That you got from where? Audacity doesn't support the more exotic new internet compression schemes -- especially Audacity 1.2. Upgrade to Audacity 1.3 (you can have both as long as you don't try to launch both at once). If it still refuses to work, convert ...

<<<Thanks for the help...and the speed thereof, as well! >>>

The Audacity elves live 'round the world, so if you hit it right, one of us is right there. If you don't, it could take up to 12 hours for the right elf to roll out of bed.

Koz

To build on all the above, apply Chris's Compressor (or any of the other compressors) to just the voice to make it more forceful and dense, then gently mix in the background music. This only works if the voice track is clean -- no echo or trash underneath. You still need to start the day with a good...

How did you do that? I always spell "separate" wrong when I type it. Anyway, you need to tell your Mac what you did. Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input. You may need to change Audacity Preferences, too. USB Microphone http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/USB_Microphone.html Th...