Audacity Forum

<<<Does anyone know if there any way i can talk directly to Audacity Technical help as i fear trying to do this on the forum my be tricky.>>> Yes, I do. No, there isn't. Yes, it might. This isn't a Corporation. The Mac version of Audacity has three people working on it. I'm betting you can't go thro...

Oh. I think I see. You just want to record the effect period. What kind of computer do you have?

Koz

<<<that I want playing in the background.>>>

The background of what?

Koz

<<<microphone recording,>>> Sometimes if you have a USB microphone, the computer tries to send the playback back out to the microphone instead of the computer speakers. Change in Windows Control Panels. Windows Control Panel http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mixer_Toolbar_Issues#Using_the...

Edit > Preferences > Interface Change to 96dB. Black Down Arrow to the left of the timeline > change to WaveForm dB. Make Audacity and your timeline as tall as you can on your screen by adjusting the windows. Now when you draw the envelopes they will go down to -96dB every time which is well outside...

Can we assume the MP3 is a widely distributed popular song from a Major Label? The first time you do live recording into your own microphone you discover that it's easy to get open, airy, natural, realistic performances. You also discover that it doesn't sound anything like the dense, processed, pow...

<<<I wonder how other recording programs solve this problem so easily.>>> They all have the same problems with slow computers. Latency is the curse of digital sound production. Every time the computer has to stop and think about something while you're singing, you lose. You can do this backwards. If...

<<<I bought a USB soundcard>>> Which one? I used an iMic for a while until I found that I could hear my hard drive running in the background of the show. Ticks, pops and whines. There is no wall power supply for your sound card, right? It gets all of its power from the computer? These sound cards us...

<<<I think that what you say about mic inputs was once true, but no longer. >>> http://www.kozco.com/tech/audioconnectors/audioconnectors.html That's the difference between Stereo Line and Microphone connections. You can't cross them unless your laptop provides specific tools to do that. Headset and...

<<<Bump.>>>

If the question had time to ripple around the earth once, then we have no idea.

Koz