Audacity Forum

That happens if you have battery voltage or DC in the signal in addition to the sound. You can remove it by applying the Normalize tool with "Remove DC Offset..." selected.

Let me know how that works.

Koz

So the basic sound system seems to be OK. It's just the computer connection that's fried. I will admit that this is the first time I've experienced this problem where the wiring error was actually at the RCA end and not the speaker cables. So the funny phase reversal and the low volume on one side w...

<<<it suddenly shows up weaknesses and faults in other parts of the system >>> "OMG! I bought new, really cool speakers and on my system they sound like garbage!!" That never happened to me. Almost without question that wiring error was hiding the other problems. We still have too many cat...

If you set the Personus properly in Mac Preferences, then everything should play through it, iTunes, FireFox, QuickTime.

Do any of those work?

Koz

<<<Right now I am coming in through the "line in" jack.>>> Which I'm betting is broken. If you have a bad shield on the 3.5mm plug, the socket will not necessarily hum or make noises, it might mix the left and right. I bet you have musical phasing problems, too, that you just haven't caugh...

<<<why are you using Audacity for this process >>> It wouldn't make any difference. He's going to find a wiring error that affects everything. If you read through the brief instructions that come with that audio test, they say that if the third segment sounds wacky and the last segment sounds OK, yo...

<<<This is actually a very powerful and flexible way of working...>>> Unless you're on the last few minutes of the latest chapter of your on-line show, all your facebook friends are waiting for it, and all you reeeeeely wanted to do is correct that one last word and if you're forced into Post Produc...

Something serious may have happened. You can install both 1.2 and 1.3 on your machine and as long as you don't open both at once, you should be good to go. Do you know how to trash the preferences? Drag the preference files to the trash and restart Audacity. The program(s) should restart at first bi...

I swear I answered this one already. Did you post more than one place?

You need to export your work as high quality WAV instead of MP3 and goose iTunes Import quality settings higher. I use AAC Higher. There is no or very little difference between the export and the iTunes version.

Koz

Audacity is not a real-time production tool. AFAIK, you can't pause the recording, change the cursor position and start it up again from the new point. Say if you fluffed the last word on a complicated recording, you'll need to record the last whole sentence again and cut the old and new together in...