Audacity Forum

I think we're in trouble. The Tube MP comes in many flavors. Do you have this one?

http://www.zzounds.com/item--ART127

Koz

<<<Now I can get some music done. I have several hundred pieces that need help.>>>

Excellent sound clip. Are you actually hearing those extreme bass notes, or are you flying blind? Trust me, they're fine.

Koz

A Shure Brothers SM-58 is a very nice "dynamic" microphone, good for voice and very difficult to damage. "Dynamic" has nothing to do with the quality of a performance, it's just the name that engineers gave microphones that are built like this one. Inside, it has a small coil of ...

<<<**somehow** they got into a different folder (okay, DUH)>>> That tree jumped right in front of my car. <<<so if I want to upload these to a website...I can just upload the MP3 and then most everyone on different platforms will be happy, right?>>> That's the idea, yes. MP3 sound files are pretty u...

We cringe every time we see audio systems measured in percent. 50% video gives you about half-brightness on the screen, but 50% audio is barely noticeable. Half volume to your ears is about -18 dB or, from Kolar above, 12%. He only took his list down to -30dB, but your ears are still working down to...

In earlier Audacity, it's Effect > Normalize. Unclick Normalize and click Remove DC Offset.

Of course, if you want to actually normalize as well, so much the better. Check them both.

Koz

You can get problems like this when you have DC offset on your sound. Root around through the effects (I'm not that familiar with 1.3) and look for "DC Elimination" or "DC Suppression" or something like that. Apply that to your whole show and then try applying the fade again. I h...

Ventrilo probably appears to the system as a destination, like speaker or headphones. Your task is to find the panel with the Ventrilo device listed and select that as the playback target. If you're in Windows, that could take weeks. If you succeed, you may not be able to hear the playback locally a...

I personally would have posted in one of the machine or Audacity version forums up above. Down here, we're just going to have to start asking you what computer you have, which operating system, which Audacity, which cassette player.....

Don't be fuzzy, either. Part numbers are good.

Koz

<<<That's why it is so important to keep backup/master copies of your valuable work in an uncompressed format.>>> No live sound capture or client delivery is complete without a safety WAV export. If the work is expensive or difficult, I copy the capture WAV files and then lock up the copies. "I...