Audacity Forum

It's not unusual to have sync problem with Separate Sound. That's why the movie people use the clapboard at the front of each take. Write down all the shoot and show info. Hold the board where the camera can see it and the sound system can hear it. Yell "Camera Mark" and bang the clapper. ...

Right. The earlier Audacity had Effect > Equalization and you got to select Low Rolloff from there. There was a problem with that one because you didn't always get the right curve depending on your jobs. Mixing different edit and filter jobs would cause problems. Again, not recommended because it's ...

Should I not worry about it and just keep running it twice? I would stop worrying about the macro and run the three tools manually. MasteringTools.png As you're finding, the Macro is not unconditionally stable and will, when it feels like it, produce bad results. Do you remember where you got the m...

And it annoys me that I didn't ask him to check the recording device was set correctly, because I'd done that in the past.

Post Mortems of disasters frequently turn up multiple causes. All the moons and stars lined up.

Koz

As a starting point, try settings of 12, 6, 6. What he said. Note that reduction levels higher than about 12 will begin to distort the voice, so it's a decision of which damage do you want. I posted an emergency backup recording of a breakfast interview I took from my cellphone lying on the table. ...

And that brings us to the A—C switch on that sound meter. Not all sound pressure readings are plain and flat as a music system. Flat is "C" (more or less). Read most things at equal volume. The actual flat reading is "Z", but that's not as handy as you think. That measures everyt...

When you're recording these vocals, Export WAV sound files of each take or pass. You shouldn't be trucking off to the studio to sing again. Just open the backup WAV files. And use a copy. Don't directly edit the backup files. This can have odd advantages. If you've been cutting multiple takes togeth...

What's the podcast?
Koz

I downloaded the episode but it went into iTunes

That is a little odd. It should have gone to Windows Media. You might put that down to Windows Preferences.

Koz

Will iTunes let you drag the show onto your desktop? Then Right-Click > Open With > Audacity. Where in that process do you lose it? iTunes has, under certain conditions of paid content, actually stiffened it's FairPlay copy protection and may not let you drag something out of iTunes. In that case th...