Audacity Forum

There are only two ways to "remove" audio using the idea of manipulating differences between tracks. The first is convert the performance to mono. If the sound was out of phase between left and right, it will vanish. The other way is to use the Vocal Removal Tool. http://audacityteam.org/d...

It's mind-bendingly common for this to happen when your Audacity version and the lame version don't match. Either one (or both) could be wrong, Get the Properties, INFO, or About on everything and make sure you have the right software combination.

Koz

Audacity is a relatively simple sound editor, not even as grand as a Digital Audio Workstation, although the latest version may get close. I use it for spoken word recordings. Since you're on a PC, you may be on the wrong platform. GarageBand is included in the Mac and I think it will do all those t...

Audacity doesn't do anything in real time. If you need it done as a post production effect three days later, then the the Audacity pitch changer is for you.

Google is good.

Koz

There's no shortage of fun and games with USB sound devices. Let's make sure you performed Export As WAV... after you produced your final show and before you tried to send the performance off to Windows Media. If you did it any other way, the results could be instable. Saving as a Project won't do i...

I am reminded there is a way to make this process very slightly less painful (but still manual) and that's the Envelope tool.

I can't find the wiki for it, but just under half-way down this page is a description of it:

http://www.transom.org/tools/editing_mi ... acity.html

Koz

<<<I understand that the ultimate objective is to bring the relative volumes of recording segments within a pleasing, natural range of one another, all the while compensating for the differences which are due to different recording volumes (gain) at different points in time.>>> That's what everybody...

<<<If that's really the case then youv'e given me some work to do .......>>> Absolutely. You should be trying it yourself. Pick a musical segment that you know and love and try it encoded at a bunch of different bitrates. Play the trials back to back with the original WAV in a quiet room and take no...

<<<a zero byte file, and the result was the corresponding part of the recording was silent, but the waveform was unaffected.>>> <<<see if there are any zero byte (or very small) .au files in the project.>>> Excellent detective work. How do I get that in the course of a normal edit--on a Mac, which d...

<<<One other feature of the phenomenon is that if I zoomed in to the wave, it would disappear in the soundless portions, and then reappear on zooming out, but it didn't change the silence.>>> Ok, well that, at least, is old news. Screen graphics are handled completely separately from the sound. If y...