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by kozikowski
Fri Mar 01, 2019 1:05 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: operating system
Replies: 3
Views: 145

Re: operating system

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by kozikowski
Fri Mar 01, 2019 12:59 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: operating system
Replies: 3
Views: 145

Re: operating system

it means you cant use it with any mobile phone or tablet? No, but you can use the phone or tablet internal microphone and software. Have you tried it? Unless you're using an expensive shotgun microphone (recommended) the quality may be up to what you need. Double record one session and see what hap...
by kozikowski
Fri Mar 01, 2019 12:09 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Help! Recording into a specific part of an audio book or skipping to a particular part..
Replies: 8
Views: 509

Re: Help! Recording into a specific part of an audio book or skipping to a particular part..

Audacity has the Envelope tool. Two vertical arrows and bent line up in the toolbar. That lets you change selected segments [as needed. Screen Shot 2019-03-01 at 03.57.01.png so that they do not hurt people's ears when they are listening! ACX technical standards are far stricter than that. We have p...
by kozikowski
Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:22 pm
Forum: General Audio Programming
Topic: Automatic noise reduction
Replies: 26
Views: 11099

Re: Automatic noise reduction

Harking back to the title of the thread, isn't it possible to not have a manual profile by averaging all the sound in the show? Anything in the show for a very long time is probably noise. I think I have a very old program which uses that technique. No, it's not perfect, but it's better than nothing...
by kozikowski
Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:17 pm
Forum: General Audio Programming
Topic: Automatic noise reduction
Replies: 26
Views: 11099

Re: Automatic noise reduction

Why not just get the Noise Profile (once) manually before running the Macro? While Audacity is open, it will retain that noise profile. I was going to ask about that. Audacity Noise Reduction will dump the profile if you restart the program, right? Is there any indication it's doing that? What does...
by kozikowski
Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:13 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Engine noise reduced (HBN) - Does Audacity tell the story?
Replies: 17
Views: 1512

Re: Engine noise reduced (HBN) - Does Audacity tell the story?

the engine components are now rotating with less friction ... there is less knocking. Those are different. "Knocking" is caused by having the fuel ignition at the wrong time, or having more than one explosion. Less Friction appears as bearing wear and while it reduces the life of the engi...
by kozikowski
Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:44 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: audacity will not recognize my tascam us144 interface please help
Replies: 3
Views: 201

Re: audacity will not recognize my tascam us144 interface please help

Those two are very different things. The microphone has voice or music data. MIDI is trying to control a piano's keys (for example). "Press middle C for three seconds." That's a MIDI command. Audacity only has very simple support for MIDI and whatever you want is probably not going to be t...
by kozikowski
Thu Feb 28, 2019 3:19 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: How to read Frequency Analysis
Replies: 12
Views: 1825

Re: How to read Frequency Analysis

Since you're measuring something physical, was it changing? Plot Spectrum is only useful if the sound being measured doesn't change. The sound of a propeller revving up for flight would give no useful information because all the tone hills and valleys in the display would try to move. Then there's D...
by kozikowski
Thu Feb 28, 2019 3:06 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: How to read Frequency Analysis
Replies: 12
Views: 1825

Re: How to read Frequency Analysis

Actually, there's a piece of this we don't know yet. There's different ways of measuring dBSPL. Which weighing or curve was the sound meter set for? The common options are "A" and "C". "C" measures more or less whatever shows up equally. "A" is the important o...
by kozikowski
Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:07 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: [Audio Theory] What's quieter USB or Audio Interface
Replies: 6
Views: 378

Re: [Audio Theory] What's quieter USB or Audio Interface

the consensus is that audiointerfaces have less hum... None of them have hum. If you have hum, you're doing something wrong or something is broken. I had hum for several months no matter what microphone and it drove me nuts before I discovered a speaker system in the room with me was broken and low...