Audacity Forum

The noise floor goes up and down with the number of bits (16-bit), not the sample rate. That's why Audacity defaults to 32-bit floating for serious work. That gives you killer noise floor and an overload point that actually goes into negative numbers (although I don't think Audacity supports that). ...

Edit > Preferences > Interface > Meter Toolbar. While you're there. Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O > Output Is that setting pointed to where you want the sound to go? If you just plugged in a USB device, some Windows throw all the sound services over to it--sometimes by accident. Koz

Nope. Can't do it. You didn't include enough of the connection information for me to reconstruct the setup. <<<One input port is used for the recording mic, the other for the capture of the right / left control sweeps.>>> No matter how many times I read that, I can't figure out where to plug what. S...

I know what that is--or what it looks like. That's what happens when you combine two sweeps with a delay or echo between them. The energy adds up and cancels out at a rate deterrmined by the absolute frequency. It's called combing for obvious reasons. I don't know how you got that, except that Windo...

The bad news is that's not static. You have a damaged capture. There are actually little, tiny pieces of the voice performance that are missing. Each gap sounds like a little bubble or pop. There's only about a billion things that can cause that, so it's your turn to tell us all about your capture s...

The traditional way is a mixer or other sound processor. You can't connect two "computer" microphones to a PC at the same time. There is a battery voltage that goes up to the microphone from the computer and strange things happen when it tries to operate two microphones at once. If you hav...

I'm trilingual, but my preference for day to day operations is Mac. "What You Hear" is one variant. "Mix Out" is another. Some of the later Windows' took to hiding that service pretty well. There is one laptop type out there that expressly forbids you to record anything from the ...

I see we haven't done basic Mac things yet. Close everything. Applications > Utilities > Disk Utilities. Select the System Drive and Verify Drive (Do not repair). If it makes it through that OK, Repair Permissions. Close Utilities when it's all done. Launch 1.3 Audacity and see if it's not better be...

I did notice one thing on a first listen. There are portions of the presentation that have significant energy in the 3-5KHz range (bright and forward) and this throws a hitch into things. No matter how much you compress and squash the waveforms, those segments will always sound louder. This, in fact...

<<<I've defragmented before>>> If you do a lot of "production" like moving, changing, copying, deleting, or saving and exporting show material, the smoothness of the drive will fall apart pretty quickly, but if you have done this in recent memory, then no, it shouldn't take that long. The ...