Audacity Forum

You wrote that you're putting a course together. Are there other students in that course? Can you ask them for help? Send out an email, let them know you're under the gun, b/c the interviews are in a matter of days. Are you a member of a house of worship, church, synagogue, temple? Can you ask for h...

Koz and/or Steve: How do I make this sound better? Using Audacity 1.3.12 and Windows XP. I speak into a Sony hand-held ICD-P520 digital recorder, bought for approx $60. There are 2 sensitivity settings on the Sony, low and high. I'm guessing...high sensitivity seems to amplify my voice as I'm record...

What version of Audacity are you using?
What operating system? Ex: Windows Vista
Are you saying it's creating a new track (in the middle of the screen), but the meter (at the top of the screen) isn't moving?
Lisa

I'm a newbie. It took me 20 minutes to figure out how to remove noise... mainly because I couldn't understand the directions. Would someone please rewrite it so the directions are more clear? IF NOTHING ELSE, AT LEAST REWRITE IT SO IT'S 5 STEPS. SO IT'S CLEAR THEY WANT YOU TO SELECT THE AUDIO FIRST,...

Does anyone else know anything about this software? I see that todere just joined today, and this is his/her first post. There's another post on this forum from someone named BrewsterClovis . Also just joined today. This is BrewsterClovis' first post (see link below). I hesitate to take their word f...

Koz & Steve: You asked me to re-upload. I have attached a clip. I took the original recording. Amplified 10 dB. Nothing else. Yes, it's insanely noisy. Please don't spend ALOT of time commenting on this clip. I took your suggestions, made changes, and the new clip sounds much better, with less noise...

Koz and/or Steve: I'm learning so much! A few quick questions: When I do noise reduction, the volume decreases. Which do you suggest? First amplify, second do noise reduction? Or... First do noise reduction, second amplify? When I do amplify - do you have any guidelines? Is there such a thing as too...

Hi Koz! Yes, it's a RadioShack 33-3013 microphone. If I'm hearing you right, you're saying the mic works well. Whew! Glad I know it's adequate for what I need. The problems I'm having have to do with the sound from my computer. The two links you added, I couldn't open them. Couldn't hear them. Lisa ...

Steve, Again, thank you for your help. The noise on laptop is probably from electrical noise + cheap microphone input components + mechanical noises such as the whirring of cooling fans. Using Audacity 1.3.12. I started over, from scratch. I pulled the power cord out of the computer; computer was ru...

Steve,
Thanks for the tips. I used noise removal in Audacity 1.3 and... much much better. Thank you.

Steve & Others...
Next question... I think most of the noise is coming from my notebook computer. Is there a lower-cost way I can fix that?