Audacity Forum

Do you have this?

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

This performer has a badly damaged microphone cable. A problem like this should clear instantly when you take the cable out and plug the microphone directly into the X2U.

Koz

Audio plays back fine and I can see wave forms

So if you press record and say "Testing one two three," there are no waves on the screen, but they pop into view when you press stop?

There are Audacity settings which can record perfectly well, but do it off the screen on the right.

Koz

Oh, wait. I'm just waking up. Take out the three-pin XLR cable and plug the microphone straight in like in my illustration (that's an SM58). Any change?

Koz

I have an X2U and I don't use it, not because it hums or has distortion or anything like that. It's actually pretty well designed, but it has low volume. I complained about it to Shure. I said I would kill to have just 10dB more volume in this thing. They said, "that's the way it is." It's...

What's the possibility you didn't get Audacity from us? https://www.audacityteam.org/download/ Audacity is open-source. Anybody can change or improve the program and offer it. Some of them change the version number a bit and the typical thing they might do is contract the number. Audacity 2.3.0 turn...

If it keeps failing no matter what you do, Please record a 20 second forum sound test. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html Do Not apply any effects or filters. Just record, stop and post it. Don't make any noise in that first two seconds. There have been odd computer or mi...

For one, you should follow strictly the ACX Mastering process. https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audiobook_Mastering It does not start with RMS Normalize . It starts with Equalization: Low Rolloff for Speech and goes on from there. You left out the settings for those two tools you mentioned and tha...

Is your voice on its own track or is this a mix?

If it's a mix, that's the end of the world. Audacity cannot split a mix into individual voices, instruments and sounds.

Koz

So that would be yes.




Koz

Fn key with the right-arrow key should smash the cursor all the way to the end. That's the equivalent of the Windows END key.

Koz