Audacity Forum

<<<Cakewalk Audio Creator records just fine>>> We're missing some important steps in the middle. You have a playback complaint, but you never said where the recording comes from. Can we assume you're making a live recording? Can we also assume that the bouncing lights red record sound meters do not ...

Are you talking to the poster who wants to take the sound effects out of Front-Left and Front-Right of a 5.1 movie mix? Something I wanted to ask them. Why are we doing this?

Kz

<<<Is there a more scientific way to do this?>>> Certainly. When you do the analysis, pull the window as large as your screen will allow. See the numbers on the left? Those are dB values of the loudness of the energy. Frequency along the bottom. Do the same thing with the Equalization tool. Pull the...

If you're trying to record a live performance, Audacity preference settings are almost irrelevant compared to microphone type and setup, room noise, micpre setup and adjustment, etc. etc.

Give us a hint.

Koz

You did install Audacity 1.2.5, right? Are you sure?

Koz

<<<I think you use forward slash "/" as the path separator on Mac.>>> That's correct. The Mac Terminal program /Applications/Utilities/Terminal is basically a linux shell. Do you follow XKCD? "sudo make me a sandwich." <<<Koz is on a Mac >>> Several, as well as PCs and over 750 l...

<<<it turns out I have 1.2.6>>> Given that you should be running 1.2.5, yes, that's a problem. From the web site notes: =============== Lame It's possible to have the right computer and the right lame and the wrong Audacity. Make sure everything is correct. http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=install...

I can't tell from the question what you're trying to record. Live voice or musical performance?

Koz

Do you have an iPod or other MP3 player? Get yourself a male to male 3.5mm stereo audio cable and plug the iPod at full volume into the Line-In of the sound card. If you can't get good volume, you have a broken card.

Koz

Leopard?

Are you trying to set 24-bit sound?

Koz