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Where did the microphone come from and how old is it?

Koz

Is my wave form now "too low" to begin with? It's been too low. Target volume on the bouncing sound meters is -6 to -10. Tips of the blue waves should be 50% or slightly lower. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/AudacityRecording-650w.jpg I know this is stereo. It's the graphic I have...

So now you know why one recommendation is not record with the computer. Nobody will mistake this for a pro announcing job. It's a small stand-alone sound recorder parked on top of a paper towel roll on the quiet bedroom desk. I was very careful to not write down which recorder. I ran it through ACX...

I may have to equalize something You can use the Tampa Bay Times Noise Test. Take regular newspaper and crumple it up in front of the microphone. Not the crappy ads and not the heavy coated stock. Regular newsprint. Do it far and near and note the differences. You can use Analyze > Plot Spectrum to...

the XLR cable being able to go the distance That's how they do rock shows where the show mixer is 75 feet away in the middle of the audience. It's a three wire system. Main Voice (pin 2) Protection Copy (Pin 3) and Protective Shield (Pin 1). Pin 2 and pin 3 are out of phase. That's not license to r...

ACX test limit is about 37 minutes at 44100 sampling rate. Apparently it doesn't matter stereo or mono because it rips stereo apart and checks each side independently.

Koz

The ACX check is a nice little tool to have. It saves a lot of shuffling test files back and forth to ACX. I have a posting here somewhere about how to perform ACX Check manually with the older, existing tools. It is possible but it's really painful. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/ACXTesting/AC...

I can only find an MP3 download and have no musical ability. Then that's the end of the job. The Yamaha keyboard can play from midi input Or more accurately, the Yamaha keyboards speak MIDI, both directions. Who plays the keyboard now? You can get the current musician to play the works and use a MI...

Right then.

That's what happens when you ask an overly general question and we go off in all directions trying to answer it.

What exactly are you trying to do?

Koz

I know it was a fairly common error that someone would put a dot in the middle of a filename not knowing what it would do. What it did was create a file with the extension ".256 my birthday party." So I'm not shocked that Audacity checks your work now.

Koz