Audacity Forum

Koz, I'll send a sample. I'll be recording this week. I studied up a bit on compressors and what each setting does. Anything that keeps the amplitude more constant without occasional extremes will probably be nice because I tend to have some high peaks followed by much lower amplitude. Playing aroun...

That's great. I tried your approach with compression, etc and made four files: A .6 input volume both compressed and uncompressed plus the same for .7. Very hard to choose between the four, but I'll listen to them over and over again. Noncompression gives the voice a slightly more natural sound, and...

OK. Thanks. That one sounds pretty good. Did you just do noise removal and a normalize at -1 and that's it? The volume on it seems almost as high as I would want it optimally. By the way, I screwed up when I said "styrofoam". The box is lined with cardboard on all sides and cushion foam (the stuff w...

OK. A little better at .5 or .6 input volume. Those settings bring the average wave to 0.5 or a bit above. The only thing I'm worried about is that there's a very busy street a block away and a bunch of screaming kids at recess 50 yards away plus cicada season and crickets at night. That's why I had...

Gotcha. Here's another file with no processing whatsoever. Not even noise removal. http://www.mediafire.com/?074o595tow7p6nt
Thanks.

Thanks. Actually, the initial input volume was very low. I amplified it in Audacity to get the waves to span the entire space vertically. I just tried another test and amplified it less, and there are still some harsh qualities to the voice. Any ideas on how to process it to take the edge off of it?

Howdy, I'm having a problem recording an audio course. I'm in Windows 7 on a Lenovo Z570 laptop. The mic is an AT2020 USB condenser. The following file is recorded at 10% input volume with the mic 14 inches from my mouth and slightly below it. Then it was normalized and amplified to give it a normal...

Now I get what you're saying. Below are two files of the same recording. The first one has no noise removal. The second one, the distorted one, was run through Audacity's noise removal effect. At normal volume, it may sound OK. Try headphones with higher than normal volume and the noise added in is ...

Now I see why you didn't hear the background distortions. On normal volume without headphones, I can't hear it either. With headphones, the noise in the background in the 2nd file is very loud.

Thanks. Did you hear those obnoxious sounds in the non-widows track? They were pretty loud, even when I wasn't talking. Are those the reverberations you were talking about?Would linens eliminate that?