Audacity Forum

Nearly all laptops have a built-in microphone for conversations, conferences, game comment and Skype. Desktop machines are "blank slate" and you are expected to supply a microphone if you want one. Have you tried to record on your phone? iPhones have Voice Memo and Music Memo. Other phones...

Like this. Menu pulldown to the left of the stereo (two blue waves) track > Split Stereo to Mono. [X] delete the dead track.


Koz

Here's a more recent one taken from trying to bring my home internet back to life after a service change.


It's a mono microphone and the Olympus recorder is stereo, so it records on the left channel. That's a couple of key clicks in Audacity to fix.

Koz

Are you recording from the TP8? Do you know where the laptop microphone is? Mine is to the left of the left-hand shift key. Start a recording and scratch the TP8 and then scratch the laptop microphone. Which is louder? That's the one you're recording from. Put the microphone in your ear and then use...

EQ - Normalize - Compress - Normalize Do you get anything desirable with the compression step? Really desirable? Compression can cause problems. For one thing, it means you are required to put noise reduction at the beginning of the process instead of at the end. Compression > Noise Reduction can c...

There's a third variation. I make WAV files because I have to ship them to a client and goodness knows what they're using. Everybody can open and play WAV files. Even Macs. Export safety WAV files of all original work and keep them in a safe place. You can work in Audacity Projects keeping in mind t...

The only problem I had was fan noise.

Cool!

To air is human.

Koz

I'm still fascinated how you got a cellphone recording that bad. Got it. It's not just sound quality. The recorder seems to have created a really bad data format. The clip was fighting me every step of the way during production and then at the end, it wouldn't let me export as a good sound file. Wha...

If you have USB connections from each microphone, then Audacity has about a 30% chance of getting the mixer. That's the only connection which would give you both microphone's sound. Roll through the microphone connections in the Audacity recording toolbar. See if you have three different USB "t...

No, I don't think it's recoverable. Have you tried this before?

Koz