Audacity Forum

Again catching up. Since you have recorded in a real studio, you know what they sound like. The only reason you would need us to actively compare results and solutions is if you got really close but were not able to reach ACX conformance. Sometimes that Last Mile can drive you nuts. It can be argued...

Most people can't read directly into ACX submission. You have to apply some corrections. We have a mastering suite of tools which will take care of that. But I don't think wild reading is what's wrong with the noise floor measurements. In order to inspect background noise, there has to be some backg...

If you (gently) tap the phone then the external mic,
you will be able to tell which one you are recording from.

Or scratch.

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/ScratchTest2.mp3

Koz

I have taken to running the remove DC offset effect prior to running any other effects, such as noise reduction, and everything is working fine now Correct. That is recommended. The other solutions are handy if you find problems in the middle of production. You can't easily remove DC from a paste i...

And no, it doesn't have sticky Mark-In and Mark-Out.

I know, right?

Koz

Also as suspected, there's no shortage of Google hits for iTunes M4A problems . Most of the responses are variations of "iTunes is Practically Perfect In Every Way and you must be doing something wrong." That's at variance with the evidence. There was one interesting note. If you change th...

Correct me, but all these tests are running through FFMpeg, right? Plain Audacity has no idea what an AAC file is.

Koz

Anyone know how i can stop Audacity from seemingly automatically adding this static noise to the background of my recordings? What's the microphone? Microphone sound is really quiet and has to be boosted to be useful. It's usually the boosting that causes noise. So even if you have the microphone u...

porch with a tin roof. So rain showers sound like a Buddy Rich drum solo. I was thinking of throwing a couple of thick blankets over my minivan You have to keep the van from acting like a tuned cavity. The large box version of singing into a wine glass. Alternately, you can find out where the reson...

I went through and edited your submission. The only part that failed was the picture. You have to post that as an attachment. Post the picture on your desktop or somewhere you know the location of. Bottom of a text page > Attachments > Add files > Point it to your desktop picture file. After it arri...