Audacity Forum

<<<This is not a free program. What is going on?>>> No, it's not, and this is an old problem. Because of the sky-high price of Audacity, we're forced to piggy back on other internet services. Call it a commercial in the middle of a TV show. The Audacity download is buried in there somewhere. Keep di...

Of course, it's a given that all these fancy tools only work if the actor is saying the same words in both tracks. If you analyze "Lumpy Dump Tom the Luddite" and "Sister Suzy Sells Sea Shells," you will get very, very different analysis even with with same actor on the same micr...

Yes. Play and pause the Audacity prompt playback on the first computer and then record the playback and your responses on Audacity on the second computer. You only have to touch the second computer at the beginning and the end. Anything can be the second computer. If you have a Zoom audio recorder o...

<<<while I am recording to editing.>>>

That's two steps. Are you capturing a live performance, or cutting (editing) a performance into a finished product?

Does the sound show vanish at the points that the waveforms do? Or the show keeps going but the blue waveforms flatline?

Koz

Do you remember exactly the name of the adapter you bought? I bet it was an XLR to 3.5mm adapter, not a balanced to unbalanced converter. The former preserves the carefully designed balanced, interference rejecting, floating nature of the microphone but is completely useless plugged into a sound car...

<<<and no helpers.>>> We are elves here. I have to wear a tall pointed hat when I type. At Christmas and Holidays, I wear the hat with the bell on top. 1.2 Audacity does not run OK on Mac/Leopard/Intel. Delete both programs. Don't forget the audacity.cfg file... /Users/Koz/Library/Application Suppor...

Your assumption that the preamplifier overloaded is almost certainly correct. You can make a good quality microphone amplifier or you can make one with a volume control. You can't do both, so the volume control is almost always after the first set of electronics. Since musical performances compare f...

Just a note. If you really reinstalled Audacity, it will ask you "English?" when you start it. If it doesn't ask you that, then you didn't reinstall no matter how many files you moved around or deleted. Audacity 1.2 puts its setups and preferences in The Dreaded Windows Registry. 1.3 makes...

Before we get all jump up and downy over this, the USB connection carries the bitstream for a stereo performance -- Left and Right. Most Windows Laptops have a Microphone-In connection and even if you manage to make the sound levels so they don't clip and even though the microphone performance seems...

While your music is on the timeline, select all of it... Edit > Select > All. Then apply any of the volume control filters; Normalize, Amplify, Compressors, etc. They will all change the volume and it's up to you to know what you want to do with your song because they all work a little different. Th...