Audacity Forum

Are you overdubbing? There's a step in the overdubbing setup where you set Recording Latency. That's so Audacity can tell where to put your new track so it lines up with your backing or click track. That's different from Machine Latency which is the time it takes for your new track to go into Audaci...

Since you submitted work already, prepare a forum test clip to this format.

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The forum won't accept mono voice tracks much over about 20 seconds. Give us a variety of words. Read the side of the milk carton.

Koz

RMS is Root Mean Square. Aren't you glad you asked? RMS is a common measure of electrical energy (power company) that happens to work out to loudness when applied to audio. There's no shortage of different ways to measure sound loudness, so even if RMS doesn't work out exact, it's really close and e...

Audacity has two different ways to view volume, the bouncing light sound meter and the blue waves on the time line. As a fuzzy rule, they should look something like this. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/AudacityRecording-650w.jpg Those are perfect and nobody but the studio people can hit that...

Thanks, Trebor. I'll try the 100Hz rumble filter, also.

You should be careful with that. Audiobook Mastering 4 has a 100Hz rumble filter built in and you shouldn't apply both.

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Koz

But note that the computer is totally outside the whisper room, just leaving a solid-state keyboard inside on the table. How are you getting ventilation in the room? Mini whisper fans? Can you hear them change if you unplugged them? Screen Shot 2018-11-16 at 13.16.52.png We had a conference room at...

-96dB is the lowest regular sound can go, so that's where I left my sound meters. But. Note I also pulled my sound meters all the way across the Audacity window Left to Right. Just click-grab the meter window and pull. The rest of the little windows will scurry out of the way. -96dB setting is the m...

Screen Shot 2018-11-16 at 10.44.05.png Alice4raw11162018Patched.wav The catch is I had to design a custom filter to get rid of what I'm assuming is computer fan noise. You have a background hum or whirr at 81Hz musical pitch. It gets reduced in the Low Rolloff equalization step, but not enough to p...

trick for "fake stereo" All of these processes make "fake stereo." There are no violins on the left and French horns on the right. That's real stereo, to replicate the original performance directions and sounds. The best you can do from one microphone is to create a false sense ...

I wouldn't do anything to that one. The volumes are good and the blue waves have occasional tips up to 50%. Most of the mastering and technical activities are to make your work compete with someone else or to conform to a set of specifications such as audiobook. You don't have any of those restricti...