Audacity Forum

I think you should probably have used Edit > UNDO rather than the History system. UNDO works from the current edit backward. The deleted audio would have reappeared. History works from the beginning of the edit session. If you discarded the History steps, then all the edits from the beginning of the...

Are you reading for audiobooks? You may still be OK. There is a range of acceptable volumes depending on how well your microphone and interface performs. Record a 20 second test and post it on the forum. We can do a lot from there. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html Don't...

it's only about half volume By that do you mean the blue waves only go up to about 50%? That's normal for live recording. That's the recommended volume. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/AudacityRecording-650w.jpg Are you reading for Audiobooks? Stay in mono. It's a snap to make "stereo&q...

Blue Ice Snowball

What does the recording device say in the little window next to the microphone?



Disconnect the microphone wait a second and then Transport > Rescan... Did your device vanish?

Koz

It does sound like a duck. I can almost give you the part numbers for commercial devices which sound like that.

Koz

Would you like the conspiracy version? There is "background processing" on your machine to make the Black Ops or Government Surveillance better able to pick up your voice and gain incriminating evidence. Make sure you keep a radio or other music going in the background if you discuss sensi...

I expanded that sucker to the width of the whole screen so I could get some details Mine lives that way. This probably isn't going to be visible..... Screen Shot 2019-01-26 at 8.46.32.png In that configuration, I can set the meter to maximum range (96dB - in Preferences) and still have good visibil...

Quick note on ACX Check. You can make it not work right. ACX Check needs about 3/4 second of pure, clean background sound to work. That's background without you making any noise at all. No shuffling, breathing, gasping, coughing etc. I mention this because everybody fails noise and this is a common ...

There are a number of other ways to lose this. Your Mac may have tried to rename the file by adding .txt on the end to make it a proper text file. It is text, but it's not proper. Right-click or control-tap the file > Get Info. That should tell you the actual filename and give you the opportunity to...

due to the safety issues around inadvertent project loss By whom? We should balance the one loss by the vicar's wife in Smithfield-Stilton on Rye against constant awkward irritation for all other users. Have you ever had computer shutdown fail because all the other applications on the machine stopp...