Audacity Forum

a good quality MP3 often sounds identical to the original Perfectly correct as an end-user . Perfect Performance > Compressed Format > Listening Enjoyment. We should not take this as unlimited license to convert between formats. You still can't make an MP3 from an MP3 without increased sound damage...

"better than a CD" Better than Audio CD. Compact Disks can also be shiny, flat hard drives (Data CD) and you can put any files on there you want. a 24-bit "DVD" quality I wonder about that. Last I checked, entertainment DVDs use 48000, 16-bit PCM and Dolby Surround, a compressed...

Have a thought about your target audience. "Everybody" is probably not going to be interested in your work. For a reality check, Google your topic. Do you follow other people's podcasts? How long are they? The forum gets postings from people whose presentations are too long for some of the...

You should be careful about that. Most musical tones people think of as "one note" are actually collections of different tones. This is one single piano note. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PianoG1Spectrum-650.jpg That's not a mistake. There really are all those tones in there. The arr...

I showed up at the front door of the camper one dark and stormy night, skinny and malnourished with my fur all matted. They took me in, gave me a bath, a proper meal and a strong, pot-brewed mug of tea. I've been here ever since. As you may know, Audacity is developed in a camper on the south-west c...

A noise gate will take care of that automagically.

In post production. Audacity doesn't apply effects in real time.

Koz

As above, even if you do force it to work, it may not work if somebody else has to play it. Departing from standard formats is dangerous. And a note: MP3 files create sound damage and it gets worse as you edit them. Not recommended for production. Is this your podcast? Who is your target audience? Koz

Why would you not want it? Not want the option, or not want the effect? I do want the effect, but only as a non-default option. My history goes back to the Ampex 350 audio tape machines and videotape machines taller than I am. Perfectly expected behavior. But it took getting used to. We should not ...

Effect > Equalization > Curve: Low Rolloff for Speech, Length of filter: 5000 > OK.

If that doesn't do it, record it again. It's possible to get wind noise so bad that it distorts the microphone. Once it does that, there is no clean sound to rescue.

Koz

Are you shocked that one of the recommendations is stop using the computer to record.



Koz