Audacity Forum

Yes I do know if you're keeping meticulous notes. It's Log [V1/V2] times 20. Let's assume you want to double the sound. V1/V2 is 2 (10 volts over 5 volts, right?) Log of that is 0.3. Times 20 is 6.

6dB.

It's Log10. I don't know how to display that on this keyboard.

Koz

I always had the blue (waveforms??) maxing out, although not necessarily clipping. Spoken like someone who has never tried to produce their own shows from their voice. In live performances, there is no "stopping just before clipping." You have to leave headroom so accidental expression (o...

Are you actually using pre-release Audacity 2.3.0? Are you complaining about it creating damaged Projects, or it fails to open an existing Projects? Other?

Koz

You are teetering on the edge between AudioBooks and Radio Theater. Did your audiobook publisher say they were OK with that? Since "Books" don't have special effects, typically the readings don't either. And yes, reverb and echo effects in Audacity are just OK if that. The problem is the c...

I don't think we hit this one yet. There is an indication of generally recommended recording volume. Your voice should produce a bouncing sound meter that occasionally starts to turn yellow (About -6dB or -10dB or so). The blue wave tips on the timeline should occasionally reach up to about half-way...

Found it.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/528/th ... e/prologue

Carin Gilfry recording a children's book in a hotel room.

Koz

Non-video people will never understand Mark-In and Mark-Out....

Koz

but then when your voice comes on it is booming! That doesn't count. Noise is correctly perceived by setting the performance volume first and then scan forward to the noise without changing any settings. This is a very common New User failure. Someone will go energetically digging for noise and bea...

obviously I can't "sound-proff" a hotel room?! Or can you? I think it was This American Life which featured a voice presenter who took a quilt and stand-alone sound recorder into a hotel closet to record an audio book and locked herself in. She left the recorder running and that was the s...

The earbuds and the foam booties are separate makers. WiredEarBudsAndFoam.jpg I have a series of Koss earbuds with foam booties. I loved them, but they eventually died from wear. I don't like the newer earbuds, but Apple made an older model...... I don't know they work on Windows machines, but I can...