Audacity Forum

<<<the recording wave box is moving and the recording level meters are jumping>>> "...the fish are jumping and the cotton is high." Porgy and Bess. These are the instruments in Audacity itself, right? The red record meters and later, the blue waveforms? OK. So you press the red record butt...

By "WAV" file, we mean 44100, 16-bit, Stereo, Binary Coded Decimal, not an answering machine or communications format. You may need to convert your clips with Super or Switch (download) to get them in a form that Audacity can edit. I'm sure there are other converters out there, but you nee...

One more. There are some famous instances of internal computer noises making into the show because of bad power filtering in a USB sound system. I had one USB sound card that notified me when the hard drive spun up by making noises in the performances. "What's that weird grinding, whiny sound b...

Insane hiss can be caused by needing to turn up the amplifier electronics to make up for a weak microphone. Some microphones have adjustments. Some have 20dB attenuators to make up for particularly loud performances which might overload downstream electronics. Some have actual volume controls in sof...

Without digging and research, it sounds like your sound feed is "clean" and that's what Audacity is recording. When you play back through the pedal, that's where the musical distortion is added. When you play back anywhere else, there is no pedal, so the sound is clean. You need to find a ...

Don't fall in love with that music ducking thing. That can get really annoying in a hurry. The sound people call that "pumping" and it's the sure sign of somebody trying to record a track in their basement. The Russian track could easily have been someone applying a compressor to the final...

You're writing that like the voice capture step is a snap. Describe your studio. Do you have a nice quiet, echo free room? Most people don't. This came up before in a similar post.

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Koz

So that's where the punch went. We're probably listening to a recording made off-air from a recording of the live event. Two tapes and multiple compressors. One of the restrictions of doing that is the relative closeness of the noise floor and the overload points. There are certainly ways to dynamic...

Since you're capturing live, nobody once mentioned the process between the singer and the computer. There is a Hollywood Professional Union devoted to that one step. Microphones? Mixer? Headsets? It's not as easy as everybody thinks. There's no shortage of people wanting their camcorder capture of a...

It's not happening if you Export As WAV?

Koz