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by kozikowski
Sat Sep 29, 2018 5:05 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Mono to stereo?
Replies: 5
Views: 425

Re: Mono to stereo?

by kozikowski
Sat Sep 29, 2018 5:00 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Mono to stereo?
Replies: 5
Views: 425

Re: Mono to stereo?

mono would mean the sound was only coming from one speaker. It could, but more generally, it means one sound coming from as many speakers as you like. This is what gives you a mono audiobook reading appearing in both sides of your headphones. And yes, it does sound like it's coming from inside your...
by kozikowski
Sat Sep 29, 2018 4:40 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Cannot select headphone for playback on MacBook Pro 15" 2018
Replies: 10
Views: 5083

Re: Cannot select headphone for playback on MacBook Pro 15" 2018

I have no problem running Audacity 2.3.0 on my 2017 Macbook Air running 10.4.1. We had a posting where the Audacity install didn't act predictably after the upgrade. I suppose it could depend on the environment. I know SoundFlower fails. I understand SoundFlower has been taken over by an active dev...
by kozikowski
Sat Sep 29, 2018 1:34 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Audacity 2.2.2 Can't Record PC System Audio
Replies: 2
Views: 143

Re: Audacity 2.2.2 Can't Record PC System Audio

What's supposed to happen is you play the backing track (karaoke track) in Audacity . It's basic overdubbing setup. Don't play the music in your computer music player. https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_multi_track_overdubs.html Audacity produces a sister track to the backing tra...
by kozikowski
Sat Sep 29, 2018 4:16 am
Forum: macOS
Topic: Cannot select headphone for playback on MacBook Pro 15" 2018
Replies: 10
Views: 5083

Re: Cannot select headphone for playback on MacBook Pro 15" 2018

tried upgrading to 10.14. I probably wouldn't do that. 10.14 has ratty support for 32-bit applications and Audacity is a 32-bit app. You may have improved your self out of an audio editor. Apple (upper left) > System Preferences > Sound > Output. Screen Shot 2018-09-28 at 21.11.27.png This exact ma...
by kozikowski
Sat Sep 29, 2018 4:01 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: How Do I Limit Spikes and Raise Volume of a Podcast
Replies: 9
Views: 453

Re: How Do I Limit Spikes and Raise Volume of a Podcast

You should know that Audacity doesn't edit MP3. It converts the content into its own super high quality internal format and edits that. Then it has to make a new MP3 when it's done, thus increasing the compression distortion. So don't try to replicate the original file sizes. Go for a higher MP3 qua...
by kozikowski
Sat Sep 29, 2018 3:56 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: How Do I Limit Spikes and Raise Volume of a Podcast
Replies: 9
Views: 453

Re: How Do I Limit Spikes and Raise Volume of a Podcast

I have no idea what any of the adjustments do. It launches from Effects > Compress dynamics.... You only need the first one, Compression ratio. Increase that one from the default 0.5 to 0.7 and Chris's compressor will turn any unruly podcast into broadcast safe. Chris designed it so he could listen...
by kozikowski
Fri Sep 28, 2018 11:09 am
Forum: macOS
Topic: Distortion when monitoring using soft pass through
Replies: 8
Views: 417

Re: Distortion when monitoring using soft pass through

in real time using a turntables pitch drive. That could be one important data point. You may find that if you tried to actually sing into that setup with your own voice coming back to you in real time mix, what latency there is would drive you nuts. There has to be some latency. Your voice has to g...
by kozikowski
Fri Sep 28, 2018 3:56 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Converting simple guitar solo mp3 to midi problems
Replies: 5
Views: 449

Re: Converting simple guitar solo mp3 to midi problems

The recommendation is to export your guitar work as WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit sound files. Those are perfect quality, uncompressed files useful for editing, listening or converting to anything else. Windows will probably try to hide the ".wav" from the filename, but that's what it is. You can...
by kozikowski
Fri Sep 28, 2018 3:46 am
Forum: macOS
Topic: Distortion when monitoring using soft pass through
Replies: 8
Views: 417

Re: Distortion when monitoring using soft pass through

I have no problem with latency. I can overdub just fine. You may be the only poster in the history of the Audacity forum who ever said those words. Then about 30 seconds later it turns off. If that's not impossible, it's impossible-adjacent. Can you see the dancing cartoon question marks over our h...