Audacity Forum

I just get a popup every time I open it saying it needs to be updated. Nagware. I updated my MBA to High Sierra and everything seems to work OK and I want to keep it that way for a while. Jake (Mini) was delivered 24 August, so it should be OK. The fuzzy guess is Audacity 2.2.3 will be the last 32-...

If your problem is low pitch rumble and walls shaking, most of that is going to vanish in the First Step : Equalization. That's one of its jobs. If you can actually hear clashing of gears (does anybody clash gears any more?) then yes, that may be audible. Honking is pretty obvious. I don't remember ...

For the longest time Stereo Mix would record everything on the computer, so the question really is why is your microphone being left out. Anything magic about it? Is going through special software, drivers or apps? Do you use Skype? Skype is famous for taking over your machine and not telling you. Koz

Is audacity going to update to 64 bit?

Probably eventually. Did you get a Mojave beta copy or did your new machine come that way?

I'm about to uncork a new Mini and I'm afraid it's going to have Mojave on it and many of my older apps will fail.

Koz

Oh, wait. One more. You could have a Sound File From Hell. If you have a sound file where the Left and Right tracks are recorded out of phase, it's terrifically hard to sort what happened while you're listening in stereo—two track, two speakers, etc. But the instant you listen in mono-mix, all sorts...

And if the dogs are going nuts, you could have ultra-sonic (very high pitch) sound. Audacity and a home microphone isn't the best way to inspect problems like this. Most home systems stop working at the limits of human hearing (if they make it that far) and ultrasonic sound goes far above that. Does...

I have a 2hr recording in MP3 format. Who made the recording? If you, what were the MP3 parameters? Bit rate? If somebody else, how do you know it is an MP3? Windows likes to hide info like that. https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfoOnline That shouldn't happen... Right. That's impossible, so what it loo...

I'm going to vanish in about two hours. If you have any testing you want, you should hit it before then, or wait until tomorrow.

Koz

Changing cables in the middle of a production or recording is insanely dangerous. You should only hot-swap cables when the production isn't that important.

If Audacity does survive the changeover, Transport > Rescan...

Koz

Now I think you're talking across each other. If you record in stereo and one track is limited to -6dB (50%) then it's broken or there is a very serious mismatch or setting somewhere. Do you get the red knob at about the same time Audacity clips? If not, then the bitstream is being mismanaged somewh...