Audacity Forum

How are you dealing with OS versions? I have one Intel Mac, but no Leopard. Most of our Mac world at the shop is older Power PC chips and non-Leopard operating systems.

Koz

<<<I forgot to mention that I have a pre-amp>>> We live on compulsive data gathering. Which preamp? Which MacBook? I think you may be working too hard. Take the output of your (we assume) stand-alone Phono Preamp and adapt it directly to the Line-In of your MacBook. Usually, Stereo RCA to Stereo 1/8...

If they're a linked stereo track, you need to unlink them with Black Down Arrow >Split Stereo Track. Then make them both mono (same dialog box). Select the voice track only and Effect > Invert. Then select both tracks and Project > Quick Mix. I'll put a lot of money that it won't work. Unless you ha...

Radio/wireless/bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

You can get really long cables for your screen, so you have everything but the fan noise in there with you. This is where laptops rule. The fans in those are much quieter.

Koz

How much will you bet that you actually got an MP3 file? If you didn't, Audacity tools will not work.

If you download the short Piano Trill from here and try to cut it...

http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html

...do all the tools suddenly start to work?

Koz

Goodness.

I'm out of breath. I'll have to sit down for a minute.

Koz

Oh, one more. I don't think the microphone comes with a shock mount, so it will pick up noises from whatever you sit it on.

http://www.samedaymusic.com/product--SAMSP01

...Or you can get clever with PVC plumbing pipe and Unites States Postal Service rubber bands.

Koz

Maaaaan. I could do pages, and yes, this is Frequently Asked, but not Frequently Answered. Nobody is going to touch your choice of Samson microphone because if you can get it to work, it's probably perfect. Most people start the message with "Which Microphone..." and you didn't do that. Pu...

Those two are how to isolate a vocal. To remove one... Center Pan Remover (Voice Remover--Search the page for "Center Pan Remover") http://audacityteam.org/download/nyquistplugins That's the plugin to do that. Sounds grand, doesn't it? The tool isn't called "Vocal Removal" becaus...

<<<ps. Posted this before I read your last post ... thanks for that ... chasing tail here ...how did you do that? Can't stay on PC any longer, but will be back, maybe Friday now ... or Saturday>>> That's the noise reduction tool in Audacity 1.3.5b. I told it to "sniff" a little bit of the ...