Audacity Forum

How much mixing do I need? Maybe none. If you set up and use overdubbing... https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_multi_track_overdubs.html ...that will give you a series of instruments and voice tracks one over the other all in sync. They will all play at the same time unless you ...

Also, it makes my teeth hurt when somebody goes through an MP3 conversion for no reason. MP3 is a compressed format that creates sound damage and you can't stop it. The fewer MP3 steps in a project the better.

Koz

The video people do have one oddity. Most video sound has a sample rate of 48000. Audacity defaults to the Audio CD rate of 44100. What happens if you do everything at 48000? Audacity > Preferences > Quality > Sampling. It shouldn't make any difference, but it might. Also see the sample rate reading...

I am very confused about a behaviour We are warned against jumping straight into the weeds of comparing dB values without finding if there is an actual job back there somewhere. @edelm probably didn't wake up one day saying, "Today, I think I'll compare spectrum values." Much more likely ...

Audiobook Mastering is a "suite" of tools. A harmonious grouping. The tools have to be applied in order and you can't add any or leave any out. MasteringSuite.png I took the posted sound clip and applied mastering. Screen Shot 2020-03-05 at 17.58.08.png Done. If you didn't get that result,...

So you haven't found the real crazy-maker yet? Audacity Plot Spectrum changes the dB range on the left to suit the data. This makes it a real joy to compare two different sounds.

Koz

Neewer is determined not to show me an operator's manual for this microphone. Is there a place to plug a headphone into the microphone ? Some microphones have that. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/samsonGTrackConnections.jpg The other way to do it is plug the headphones into the microphone i...

The background noise is too dominant and the audio of my interview sounds too tinny. That's the signature of using the wrong microphone. Pay attention to the little microphone symbol in the top of Audacity and make sure your microphone is listed there. Do you know where your laptop built-in microph...

I think I've run into this. Audacity always assumes you want to add work to the longest track. Did I get it? Overdubbing Audacity always assumes you want to start from the beginning? Closer? Is this a problem of the difference between Plain Record and Shift+Record? One starts a whole new track and t...

The curious thing is that after many hours in DOS mode I haven´t got any shut downs. On a completely wild guess, you have a memory issue in High Memory. DOS has no idea how to use High Memory. I had a Memory Checker which would load and run from a floppy. So the first tiny bit of memory wouldn't ge...