Audacity Forum

LOL. 6.3mm is a quarter-inch phone plug. We're not used to that new fangled Metric stuff here in Los Angeles. <<<The iMic has been exceptional at converting my old audio tapes>>> Big difference. The signal from a tape player is roughly a thousand times louder than the signal from your microphone. It...

Audacity is free and has no license restrictions or key codes. Did you get Audacity from here...

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Koz

By the way, your ears work funny. They don't hear "half volume" until about -18dB. This disconnect between your ears and the electrical signal is one of the reasons you need to double the size of your living room sound system to hear any difference at all. The reverse of that lets you hear...

<<<having no way to listen in 5.1 - dunno.>>> You can listen to the two Rear tracks and listen for obvious echo effects like the microphones were in the back of the hall. Also listen for instruments that are very forward but suppressed in the Front tracks. That's the clue for immersion product. In a...

That's OK. We're resilient.

Nowhere in all that did you say the magic words, "It plays perfectly on somebody else's phonograph." I bet it doesn't. Go to the club and get them to play it just long enough to see. Buy the DJ a pint.

Koz

Oh, and you're doing all this in a sound proof room, right? Echoes from walls will kill you dead. If the separation between the microphones is a significant percentage of the distance to the nearest wall, you have no good data.

Koz

Two problems with the theoretical setup: It depends on both microphones being precisely the same and most microphones won't do that. Some ElectroVoice microphones are advertised as matching very closely and can be used together to defeat background noises. Other manufacturers offer "Matched Pai...

Managing the Center track is a little tricky. After reducing the level with the above formula, you need to make it into a stereo track so it will mix properly with the Front signals.

Koz

If there is a Line-In jack on this machine, then that's the one you should be using. Blue maybe? A lot of Windows Laptops don't have Line-In and those people get burned. After that, it's a matter of selecting the right input and volume in the Windows Control Panels. Windows Control Panel http://auda...

<<<I can actually hear other trax in the same file>>> That's not a good assumption. An Audacity Project isn't "a file." When you open up an AUP file, it calls the thousands of other files that actually make up the show. You can open up an AUP file in TextEdit and read it. There are English...