Audacity Forum

Thank you iPower, formerly iPowerWeb. We on the left coast of the US have been having "internet storms" of late. My web site drops off line here and there. Try it again a bit later. I show it back to normal. We just upgraded the company connection to something blistering like 200MB or 300 ...

I didn't know all that was up there on the wiki. However, I don't see any mention of that XP driver cross-over desperation method someone found a while ago. Was one just written before the other? http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6134&p=24329&hilit=vista+XP+drivers#p2432...

Yes. Digital overload is one of the killers. Even if ClipFix works, it may not sound quite right in the final show. It's extremely difficult to solve digital peak distortion.

Koz

What he said, plus there is a "Hardware Playthrough" option as well as the "Software Playthrough" option in Audacity Preferences. Sometimes switching those can help. All your production audio management has to be done through the mixer or external processing. Trying to do it live...

The fact that you're listening to the work doesn't mean that Audacity is getting the work. Before you press Record, click once inside the red Audacity record meters. They should become alive and tell you what the audio level is going to be in the final recording. If you get nothing, then Audacity is...

You might be able to sweet-talk Audacity into delivering the sound out of the computer to you to apply to the external analog box you're going to build with the pedal on it, and then you deliver the modified sound back to the computer as a fresh recording track. It might give yoiu a headache to keep...

<<<Aidacity, would have to allow a "sound on sound" >>> Oh, it does that now. On Windows machines, people routinely get stuck with echoes on their overdubbing recordings because they record their original track plus newly recorded voice and their real-time voice. So yes, that doesn't bothe...

You can do a very passable pitch recognition with the Spectrum Analyzer. Select a small portion of the tone and... Effect > Analyze > Plot Spectrum. The cursor in version 1.3 will read out the location of the peaks to a pretty high accuracy. The major peaks will be the tone frequency. You can get nu...

<<<DC offset may be valid data in the digital realm, but it is not "sound".>>> An audio system should not pass DC. This is an exercise in fantasy that engineers go through. Yes, a theoretical perfect sound system would pass and process DC, but that would mean that the microphone could capt...

All Macs in the last bunch of years have a very good High-Level, Stereo Line-In. Occasionally, you'll find somebody who can support an external microphone directly with a very old Mac, but that's not the rule. You can plug a stereo mixing desk, iPod, cassette machine or other Line Level device right...