Audacity Forum

There's some difference of opinion how to deal with iTunes. I'm in the camp that says you need to deliver the highest possible quality sound to iTunes (WAV) and set iTunes preferences to produce the result you want. You can also use Audacity/lame to produce a very nice MP3 compressed song during pro...

I recorded all the live voice performances for a theatrical short at 48000, 16 bit. Me, a mic, a mixer, a quiet room and my PowerBook.

Koz

Audacity doesn't always get along so well with 24-bit sound. I think you'd be much further ahead with 16 bit. Even at 16 bit, the noise floor of a vinyl record is magnitudes worse that the digital channel you're putting it on.

16 bit should also resolve the problems with iTunes...

Koz

<<<recently not been able to record my guitar at alll>>> Many more details would be good. This used to work OK? You used to be able to record your guitar and it sounded OK? How do you have your guitar connected and which kind of computer do you have? There is a little microphone icon in the Audacity...

<<<Not sure why output to speakers should have anything to do with recording from a tape deck.>>> Because of the insane way that Windows does sound services, Mix-Out, the service that normally feeds your room speakers, is a sound device. Because it is a valid sound device, you can record it in Audac...

<<<echo, probably due to some incorrect settings on my mixer.>>> Maybe, but VOIP phone calls have echoes just as a standard feature. Regular phone service is more or less instantaneous from end to end and so you can do tricks like sidetone and echo balance. Not so VOIP calls. Because of packet delay...

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Koz

I'm shuffling back and forth for the best way to deal with this.... Download the Piano Trill from here... http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html ...open that by itself in Audacity, select a small piece and see if the noise profile tool works. I bet it does. If it does, then you may have a damaged...

You got dangerously close to telling us what kind of computer you have.

Koz

Audacity will record up to 16 individual channels of sound from any one audio device. That does not mean you can connect, for example, eight USB turntables up to your computer and play 8 records in stereo at the same time. Audacity will see only one turntable as one stereo sound device (two audio ch...