Audacity Forum

Please note I'm assuming you're making an actual recording. You didn't say so. We are warned against charging off in diagnostic mode without finding out what the actual job is. In particular, Audacity drives scientists nuts. If it's a choice between scientific accuracy and sounding good, Audacity wi...

There will be a fairly gradual wave forming down in the lower dB and occasional solitary dots or groups of dot that leap up toward the max. That does have the personality of a recording error. Start a recording. Say "Noise Test," wrap the microphone in heavy towels and make a long (half-h...

One thing I've noticed is "spiking." What does it sound like? It's a bad idea to microscopically inspect the work for bad bits, or in some cases go "diving for noise." You can trash any recording by doing that. Listen with your high quality headphones or speaker system. It is po...

My voice isn't entirely even, and I used to be able to tell when one of two news readers was speaking just by looking at the blue waves. Hers were symmetrical and his weren't. As above, there are certainly distortions and damage that can throw the waves off more than just natural speech. The trick i...

Competing posts. It's possible you can have Windows "helping you" by boosting bass notes, and then only in certain conditions. Turn off any "Windows Enhancements." I had a machine from the Systems people where they accidentally left "Cathedral Effects" running on playba...

Plain Voice, Presenting/Announcing Voice, Theater Voice. You have the expressive theater voice. I think we're at full stop. Without hearing it in real life, all we can do is go with your description. That ultra-low pitch processing was the easy, low-hanging fruit. I'm going to go straight to broken ...

You're coming back more than once. That sounds like ordinary feedback in a very large room. The delay time sounds like one pass through Audacity. Are you listening with headphones? Where are they plugged in? You can't listen to yourself by monitoring the computer and you can't use speakers with most...

Let me know if I get close.

Koz

This sounds a little more complex than I need There are simpler ways to do it. The problem is getting Audacity to record and play at the same time. It doesn't much like doing that. So play the backing track in Windows Media to your headphones and sing into an Audacity recording. Move the backing tr...

install the Fender Universal ASIO driver, but this did not make difference. It won't. Due to licensing issues, Audacity doesn't easily support ASIO. You skipped a step in the middle. Did Windows detect the connection and does it pass sound? There should be a speaker symbol in the lower-right of you...