Audacity Forum

<<<If all I need is an RCA to mino plag converter, why buy a new turntable?>>> USB turntables have a Phono Preamplifier built in, so yes, that's all you need. If you try to bring up your original turntable for recording into your Mac, you should be putting a phono preamp between the two. Phono Pream...

Windows Control Panel
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel

Koz

<<<Just one--an 80 gig drive that's divided into three partitions.>>> There are almost no benefits to doing that (unless you're on Linux) and some serious drawbacks. Most people create folders to manage their work. I wouldn't be shocked to learn that drive access speed has been compromised to the po...

Audacity accepts Nyquist plugins like these...

http://audacityteam.org/download/nyquistplugins

Koz

<<<(I searched but nothing jumped out at me.)>>> Or me. It's not classic clipping from too high a level. I wonder if the performer was wearing a headset that was overloading a radio microphone system. She seems to have the microphone element jammed right in front of her lips--which would have been O...

<<<I'm using a pretty decent pre amp and separate a/d converter.>>> FireWire, right? <<<I dont believe there is a mic input on this imac.>>> There is a built-in microphone. Most new Macs have High level analog inputs and you're right, no external microphone input. <<<If the signal is clean on vista ...

<<<once upon a time I created the G drive for working with my music files>>>

Wait, you created G:?

How many physical hard drives do you have?

koz

How did you add the silence? Generate > Silence? Audacity doesn't actually edit MP3 files. Few programs can. They convert it to editor native format, edit that, and then convert back. As a first pass, I would Edit > Select > All and try to export that. Can you Export As WAV? A work-around would be t...

Sometimes you can get around wacky 1.3.6 problems by trashing your audacity configuration file. I'm not totally sure where it is on a Windows machine, but you can search for that. audacity.cfg is the usual suspect file name.

Koz

<<<This is driving me nuts!>>> Unfortunately, it's only driving you nuts. If it was driving two or three thousand people nuts, it would bubble up to the top of the attention pile--like that Noise Reduction in 1.3.6 thing. Everybody has that problem. Even if a developer were to show up, they are most...