Audacity Forum

You can do the Limited Variable Scientific Experiment. Accurately time a recording, say 3 minutes, by your watch. You don't have to actually roll tape. Just use the same setup as you did for the music. Time the resulting sound file and the difference between reality and the file is the Effect > Chan...

Do you think there is any way to retrieve a decent recording of this podcast? Not unless you double recorded it. The instant the machine ran out of room, it stopped reliably recording the show. There's nothing to retrieve. This is from a remote radio broadcast I shot. It's only a single voice in Lo...

Windows or Mac? I think my Mac has the ability to create a Composite Device and mix two USB connections. But that's not a Get Out Of Jail Card. Sound sync between the two will drift off.

You never said whether you were going to perform live or record the performances.

Koz

That's a red flag. The Mic-In is barely mentioned at all in the product info and the connector seems to be 1/4" and not an XLR. If the keyboard is expecting a dynamic microphone wired as a rock band microphone this may not work so well with a condenser. The IN and the OUT of phantom generators ...

A dynamic microphone is just a coil of wire conveniently close to a magnet. Yell at it and it makes a sound signal, so it doesn't need anything. A condenser microphone has electronics in there and it has to get power from somewhere. Many condensers have batteries. Field news gathering shotguns work ...

We're assuming the tape starting gives a high volume "Piew" sound as the electronics catches up with the job. You can scan forward manually and reduce each one by hand. That can be a lot of work depending on how many there are, but you could do that. Drag-select the blue waves for the dama...

how to improve a recording quality? You're not improving a recording quality. You're in disaster recovery. Is there a Graphic Equalizer as I use in iTunes. Effect > Equalization > Eq Type: Graphic. That will give you sliders to push different tones up and down as needed. I'm pretty sure it doesn't ...

You can set up for overdubbing. You record your voice over a backing track or rhythm track. It produces two tracks, music and voice, and when you play them both together, it sounds like you're singing over the music. You need a live microphone and headphones. You could use a laptop built-in micropho...

Probably not. Audacity can't split a mixed performance into individual instruments, voices or sounds. The probablity goes down further if you're trying to do the surgery with a compressed posting such as a YouTube piece. You might be able to use Edit the Spectrogram tools. You should know that with ...

which seems to have caused some kind of recording error. When that happens, you don't have a computer any more. You have a damaged data system struggling to breathe. It will no longer do predictable computer tasks—such as saving your work. I'm surprised Audacity didn't crash or freeze. You can get ...