Audacity Forum

I had to do an erase, upload You lost me. Are you having to initialize your whole machine regularly? That's not normal. You have a sick puppy there. Time to visit the Genius Bar. Finder (upper left) > Preferences > Advanced: [X] Show all filename extensions (select). Now back to the plugn. Does it ...

Any change good or bad is noteworthy. Can you make it worse?

Koz

A lot of that is trying to figure out what's wrong. That " plug it in and it just starts working " is fine for a lot of people, but if that doesn't work out, you may need to get down into the grease and figure out what happened. I have no real idea why some places sound OK and some don't. ...

That may seem like I just speeded it up and added music. Nope. The phrases are Effect > Change Rhythm , so that the timber, pitch and expression remain constant, but the words go by faster. I did that twice, 10% faster each time. I know that's not 20%, but I'll do the math later. It finally started ...

I can't deal.....

Koz

Nothing wrong with that. I ran it through straight Audiobook Mastering and this came out. No noise reduction. Screen Shot 2018-05-04 at 18.22.04.png RAW_SAMPLE_20SEC-AudiobookMastered.wav http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=96103 I have a production complaint. Being an instructor ...

I listen to the computer on headphones with Audacity set for Playthrough. That means Audacity will record the show and turn it around and send it out to the headphones at the same time. Or almost at the same time. The headphone sound will be delayed and sound like an echo if you can hear the live sh...

You may have more than one problem. Pulling the sound file into Audacity and watching the meters is the only certain way to tell whether Left and Right are the same. As above, if the two sound meters are glued together, you have two track mono, not stereo and something is broken. Even if Left and Ri...

I read through that three times. How are you listening to the backing track? If you have a microphone, you need to be on headphones and you need to Not be listening to the computer. You should be listening to the microphone or the preamp or the interface depending on what you have. You should also b...

I would update to Audacity 2.2.2. 2.2.1 had a serious bug that can cause show damage.

Koz