Audacity Forum

A word on the Field Effect Transistor used inside Electret Condenser microphones. It's not a microphone amplifier. It's in there to transform the signal at the condenser which is reasonable level but very delicate with no horsepower behind it, to the same signal with enough authority and force to ma...

<<<Warm water and a bit of washing-up liquid, followed by a final rinse in distilled water (battery top-up water) is fine for Bakelite.>>> Yes, don't get crazy with chemicals. The final rinse in distilled will dry with no water spots and the disks will be ready to play. Alcohol leaves a fine film on...

<<<Gale Andrews>>>

You didn't get that note from me, did you? I was posting about this when one of our little forum squalls went through and I think took my message with it.

It's digital, what could go wrong?

Kozx

Just so you understand, USB turntables produce an Unstable Condition because designing them that way was cheap. This is a digital magic zone that's very rare, but creates quite a bit of fuss when it exists. Your turntable isn't just "working". It has gone from 49% probability of success to...

<<<Sony ECM-77B>>> I can't find the actual curves for this microphone, but sometimes you can extrapolate beyond the ones they give you. Unless they don't give you one. I can tell you Sony isn't stupid and they only give you a 3dB specification of 20 KHz is because it looks grand on paper and lets th...

We must be misunderstanding the question. There are no digital signals over 0dB. Audacity's "zero" is really 0dBFS in the ditgital world. Zero Decibels Full Scale. There is no more up from here. There are certainly digital signals over analog zero VU and there are tricks to getting between...

That's one of the down sides of being able to easily record internet shows. Doing that involves the computer feeding back on itself (play and record at the same time) and that can be dangerous. See Fiddle. Vista makes that much harder to do and Macs have never been able to do that without extra soft...

Audacity defaults to 32-bit floating for one of its sound file specifications. That makes a dandy editing quality, but many music CD authoring programs have no idea what that is. Open up the show in QuickTime Player and press Apple-I to get the INFO panel. A good pre-burn panel will say 44100, 16-bi...

<<<The difference seems to be the last thread "ODManager", all other threads are obviously yielding cpu time.>>> ...he said, secure in the knowledge that he was talking to a room full of system level programmers. He wasn't. I'll ping one of the forum administrators for you. They could use ...

<<<"to manually move the cursor while the track is playing".>>> That's not quite it. You sorta have that now. Under certain conditions, you can play the work and poke at the timeline and the playback will pick up at that point. That's not it. Having the cursor play at any speed in either d...