Audacity Forum

Step one. Get or make a studio. By far the worst problem home readers have is the competition with a bad room or environment. Behold Ian who holds the current record for longest post on the forum. All he wanted to do was record audiobooks in his apartment in Hollywood (a real place). We beat up his ...

at least I know what's happening now.

Or maybe not. Do you use iCloud or any on-line storage or file management? Audacity hates that. So it may not be the connection as much as what you're doing with it.

Koz

Audiobook Mastering, as above, is a suite of tools designed to work one after the other. You are warned not to take the tools out of order or leave any out. The first step, Filter Curve tries to suppress low pitched rumble sounds, an error that many home microphone have. That right there can be the ...

Or, since this a forum, users helping each other, you can wait until someone posts with the same symptoms and compare notes.

Koz

Before we dive into the weeds here, what's the goal? If you're reading for audiobooks or voice-over work, we publish a simplified voice processing collection of tools. If it's something else it would be good to know what.

Koz

Those iPhones and lavaliers are looking better and better aren't they? You might try Voice Memo just to get a feel for how it works. Page two of opening screen > Extras > Voice Memo. I opted for the larger memory device because I knew I wanted to mess with the sound and picture tools. I think the on...

Macs give an option of viewing Date Created and Date Modified.


It's possible that's a Windows hidden option.

Koz

You can reassemble the little 6-second AU files back into the show manually. It's not Impossible if you didn't edit or change the show from the recording. If you're holding an edited show, you're dead. The AU files alternate stereo left and right. They do follow roughly the time and date stamps if i...

she exported the AU files onto my phone. AU files are Audacity Project internal files. They're not supposed to be managed outside of a Project. If you saved the work, chances are the completed Project is still there somewhere. It will look like this. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MyMusicA...

If you turn Show Clipping off, the timeline turns into a solid sea of blue, right? That's the sign you need to record it again. Audacity cannot recover from massive overload. This used to be a sign that you crossed, for example, a sound mixer output connection to a microphone connection on the side ...