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Running Audacity 2.1.2 via .exe installer Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601) AMD 3.20 gigahertz AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6 core Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. M4A88TD-M/USB3 Rev X.0x As a hobby in order to learn how to manipulate digital audio, I use Audacity mostly to make what ar...

Audacity V2.0.6 installed via .exe Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium Service Pack 1 Asus mobo AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 3.20Ghz Including 2 screenshots of history display Notice how the action "Moved 'old soundbite' up" is repeated, about 50 times. There were only 2 tracks in the project at the time, and I...

Win 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1 Audacity 2.0.4 installed by .exe Been puttering around with Audacity as a hobby, creating ringtones/soundbites from old pop tunes - having fun and learning quite a bit. But a couple of times, it has seemed like if the tempo effect was applied to a track in which the...

There used to be a free product from The Conversation Network called Levelator. It was designed for use on podcasts where multiple people were being recorded using multiple microphones, and it did a very good job leveling out the audio from different speakers. Although it is no longer being supporte...

Forgive an ignorant question...

Earlier this year, on the advice of several other posters in this forum, I migrated from Audacity 1.2.x to 1.3.13 beta. Should I now migrate to 1.3.14, or wait until it becomes 2.0?

Thanks in advance...

I recently got a UCA202 because running a cable from my amp lineout jack directly into my Windows XP laptop mic input jack produced a very 'dirty' sound. Not only clipping, but the closest I can describe it, it sounded like listening to something being played on a cheap loudspeaker with a rip in its...

The same trouble happened again during last night's recording session. Afterwards, a friend noticed the WAV file exported from Audacity showed a Length attribute of zero in the Properties display. Today I found the cause of the problem. It's documented in the "How To Burn" tutorial (http://wiki.auda...

I've been doing speech recording for about 8 months. No experience before that, so I'm still very much new. My no-frills setup is an SM58 clone mic XLR'd into a Kustom KMP4080 amp, and out to a couple of Kustom speakers for room audio. To record, a mono cable goes from the 1/4" output jack on the ba...

FYI - For what it's worth, I'm going to repeat some advice I received on this forum a few weeks ago (I do speech recording, and have struggled with sound levels for months). There's a free software product called the Levelator (http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator) that has been a miracle w...

There are no easy answers, because every recording is different. If you are doing the same kinds of recordings over-and-over, once you have an idea of what works with your set-up and your recordings, you can use that as your default compression set-up and make small changes when necessary. Threshol...