Audacity Forum

You're right that the first and last steps in mastering don't care in the least how long the presentation is, but RMS Normalize works on a fuzzy average and long stretches of silence may throw the results off. I think I follow that. You do that so you can apply Mastering to one single track. How are...

Has playback to the Tascam ever worked? It is stressed that Record and Playback work perfectly by themselves before you try overdubbing. There are too many interactions to stop an overdub session in the middle and try to figure out what's wrong. I'm sure the Tascam claims astronomically high technic...

USB interface.

What's the USB interface?

Koz

There is a manual recovery process, but maximum success can only be had if it's a mono show and you didn't edit it or change it. Stereo shows can be recovered, too, but Left and Right may swap places at random. This is the written piece for Automacic Crash Recovery. https://manual.audacityteam.org/m...

Basic computers have one record pathway and one record. You can record your microphone and playback music and that's about it. If you want to record two or three different things, you need software that modifies the computer pathways, not just a DAW. Audacity will not record from more than one thing...

Basically I want to record the soundoutput of skype/teamspeak/discord and others... Maybe not. That will only give you the sound from the rest of the conference and not you. Most people want to record both sides. That's the hard one. https://blogs.skype.com/news/2018/09/04/introducing-skype-call-re...

It also needs a portion of the show that's noise-only to give Noise Reduction an idea what to remove. That's the Profile step. If there is no portion, then Noise Reduction will either fail or produce damaged sound. Extreme noise reduction jobs fail because you can't hear the quality of the noise. If...

Do you know if you can edit and record video with audacity?

Yes, we know. No, you can't.

Many times we can pull the sound out of a video and edit that, but you need a video editor to put the repaired sound back in to the show.

Koz

All under Effect... Effect > Echo Effect > Reverb Effect > Equalization Equalization has two major variations. Frequency Sliders (Graphic) that appear like the one on your music system, and Draw where you literally click on and pull the frequency graphic and the sound follows you. Please note that i...

Could this be fallout of an unfortunate feature some versions of Audacity had of placing shows (projects) inside the /Applications directory?

What happens if you place the show on the desktop? Do you get the same failures?



Koz