Audacity Forum

I'm out of breath. Screen Shot 2020-01-30 at 8.33.40.png I believe that's a stand-alone web document never intended to be publicly distributed. If it does appear on-line, it may be by accident. I don't think anything points to it other than, you know, Google. So I became one of those "Hidden Se...

Attached is a zip archive containing a corrected "SETrms.txt" file. Thank you. Today is going to be fresh tea and cleaning up errors and mistakes. MopBucket.jpg There are at least two info links in Kozco that are dead. As soon as I find that page I may find a lot of other inconsistencies....

I have a very important recording (impossible to rerecord now), which I screwed up making somehow. Do you know what the "somehow" is so you don't do it again? Screen Shot 2020-01-30 at 7.50.33.png It's nice to have Desperation Methods available, but it's a lot less nice to rely on them fo...

Audacity > Preferences > Recording. Turn off Playthrough.

Turn on Overdub.

Does that help?

Koz

Do you have all the pieces of the project available? Audacity Projects are not one single file. They are a Project Manager (aup) file and a _data folder with the actual sound. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MyMusicAUP-MyMusic_DATA.jpg Do you have both parts in the same location or folder? D...

Does audacity have a way to analyze the track and just select all of the quieter parts for amplification etc? Do you know that you're going to get something good if you do that? That looks like one of the Windows Enhancement tools trying to suppress background "noise." If it suppresses fa...

A word on backups. You can copy the _DATA folder and AUP file to a different drive. You can have two identical but separate files that way. You can use split folders, too, but that's dangerous depending on how you have your screens deployed. It's not fashionable to know where your folders are. I lik...

Missed a couple. The AUs are, or should be, six seconds long. The only way to accurately reconstitute the show is by comparing content and using Time and Date as general guidelines. There used to be an automatic manual rescue (so to speak), but since it succeeded only a tiny portion of the time, all...

i was an idiot and did not back up original before editing. That's not why. You should Export raw performances as WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit Immediately when you stop recording. That's the safety backup. Then, later when you're starting to edit, edit a copy of the project which is harder than you think...

When you do get it all sorted, you can send us a raw recording test. We can see if the normal mastering techniques will work and evaluate any other problems. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html Note all we're officially doing is technical testing. Everybody knows what the...