Audacity Forum

And it's higher or lower if you Export As WAV instead?

If you reimport the MP3 into Audacity, does everything return to normal, or you still have a damaged sound file--low waveforms?

Koz

Your timeline illustration shows an 8 KHz sampling frequency on the left. That's not high enough for music.

He's right. I think your sound card failed.

Koz

Gotta wait until I go home again. There's a joke from an LA attorney friend who has offices in New York. He says if you do it right there's only a fifteen minute window where you're both in the office at the same time. Most people arrange to be out of cell phone range during that time. <<<won't supp...

The preamp I use and the Hafler both have turntable ground lugs and it is required that you use them for anything like quiet, well behaved performance. The signal that comes out of a conventional turntable is nothing like a standard, line-level audio signal, even though the cables and connectors see...

Oh. One other thing. Sometimes it's good to restart Audacity after you make a system change like that.

Koz

Your Mileage May Vary

American car commercials always have that at the end to convince you that you will never, ever get the same efficiency that the automotive testers did.

Koz

<<<all that way away in Los Angeles>>>

Yes, well. Some of us live in sunny, warm Manchester.

Koz

You win on Sports Call®. I suspect you have no other option than to upgrade to 1.3. Audacity 1.2 for Windows kept its preferences in the Dreaded Windows Registry. Abandon Hope All Ye... Once that gets scrambled, there's no way to fix it, unless you're really good with regedit and backup files. You c...

<<<including Audacity preferences>>> With very few exceptions, nothing Audacity can do affects the capture performance. It's all about the USB electronics. Many,many people would kill to have Audacity apply real-time recording filters and effects, but in the current versions, it just doesn't happen....

Drums are a challenge for everybody, see: two microphones, above. Here in Hollywood, this is right up there with capturing a theatrical explosion. "What do you mean you can't just set one off so I can adjust sound levels..." Drum impacts exploit every known shortcoming of microphones. They...