Audacity Forum

You have a sound card with a Mic-In and a Line-In. Very low level for use with a microphone and much higher level from, say, the playback from a DVD player or iPod. It's normal for cheaper sound cards to leave out the +20dB mic boost, but Blasters usually have it included in the Windows Setup Panels...

You can try deep resetting your iBook. There are two systems that normally go for years without needing service, but in extreme cases they may need to be reset. One is NVRAM and the other is Power Management. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1431 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379 My iBook had a really...

If the two files are the exact same tracks with the only difference being the vocal in one, then you can mount both of them on separate tracks one above the other, flip one over and add them. Effect > Invert. Export a WAV file and the orchestration should be gone. The failure rules for this process ...

Windows is only going to see the device that's physically plugged into the USB connection. This connection identity will not change whether you have a microphone plugged in to the adapter or mixer or not.

Koz

I just had another idea I've never actually tried. Pile two Sunday New York Times' under the microphone and on the desk surface. I bet the spoon makes almost no noise if you drop it on that and it should kill most sound "slap" and reflections. Drop the spoon on the raw tabletop and then on...

<<<It came with a nice little desk stand and the sound quality is great.>>> Yes, but... Desk stand microphones have problems with voice reflections from the desk and occasional noises being transmitted through the wood/Formica®. For excellent results cover the desk -- or at least the part under the ...

<<<so a beta version is fine.>>>

We wish they would stop calling it Unstable Beta software. There is no unconditionally stable 1.2 for the newer Macs. Audacity 1.3 is the current operating version.

Koz

Maybe it's not Audacity or the turntable. Maybe your speakers are connected wrong. Download and play the Left-Right-Mono sound clip and play it. http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html The last segment is intentionally damaged and should sound weird, hollow, or low. If segment three does that inst...

I think I would be searching for a filter that knew what DTMF touchtones were. As is obvious by now, they're not all the same pitch and multiple tracks are going to wander. The filter can't wander, and even if it did, it would create some serious distortion in the show. That's the elephant in the ro...

Maybe. I don't think the instrumental will do you any good. Most of the time this doesn't work all that well because there is a long list of failure rules. For example, if the show is in mono, you're automatically dead. These are the known removal and isolation tools... Voice Removal or Isolation --...