Audacity Forum

That's the desperation method. The purists don't like doing that because it puts the sound through two digital conversions, not counting anything that might have happened at the original digitizer plus anything you do to play it back. For a lot of people it's OK, but you may find that the sound will...

<<<I'm from New Jersey you know. >>> It's "Joisey." Can we assume you have tons of clear, error-free, defragmented space on your hard drive? Audacity will not work into a fragmented drive. It's possible you just have a damaged Audacity install. But don't reinstall it. Close Audacity. Find ...

<<<but got no sound at all when I did, so uninstalled it.>>> That's a danger sign right there. You installed the microphone manufacturer's own software package on your known, good, working, stable machine and it failed. What's wrong with this picture? <<<When I switch to -10dB on the C03U, the sound...

Do you happen to remember where you got the song from? iTunes songs will not play in Audacity and they have Copy Protection on them.

Koz

There's a "Snap To" selection at the bottom of the frame. Unclick it.

Koz

<<<On these parts it is possible to apply this effect and extract some great sounding profession percussions.>>>

Which one of the tools did you get to work and did you apply it in any special way?

Forum = Dialog.

Koz

It's important in Audacity to get the words right. Audacity will not save sound files. You have to Export to get a stand-alone sound file.

Do you get a working sound file if you Export As WAV?

Koz

I use AAC 256 (Better) for all my iPod music, but I switch to perfect, uncompressed WAV if I need anything serious. My task is to remember to switch back and forth at the appropriate time. That will be your task, too.

Koz

Audacity can't deal with Apple AAC format. iTunes only converts on Import, not Export. So, change iTunes to Import WAV or AIFF format in iTunes Preferences. Then pull your music back into iTunes and then move it to Audacity. Of course, this doesn't work with iTunes purchased music. That has FairPlay...

The other tool is called Vocal Isolation and there re certainly tools that can do it. Some that do both. Voice Removal or Isolation --Center Pan Remover (Voice Remover--Search the page for "Center Pan Remover") http://audacityteam.org/download/nyquistplugins --Voice Trap http://www.cloneen...