Audacity Forum

The worst part is I bought all of this two years ago, plugged it in, everything worked and recorded perfectly. I've changed nothing about my hardware or software that I can think of and I nothing works. An automatic audio-driver update may have occurred. You mentioned you'd installed a custom drive...

... draw without zoom to see each samples? You may be trying to draw (copy) the envelope of the waveform. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Signal_envelopes.png That is possible in Audacity, but the envelope does not contain any pitch information, it's only the variation in volume...

The lead voice sounds clean with a little echo or reverb. They may have just shot it in a large room. It's stereo-reverb on the vocal & the acoustic bass, so my money is on it being an reverb-effect, rather than a real room. The reverb effect on the vocal is quiet in the mix, but it has a very-...

kozikowski wrote:I wonder if Libravox applies processing. That would mean all the reader had to do is get in the ballpark, not hit the specification exactly.

There is some variation in the Librivox recordings, (e.g. this is wide of the mark),
which is evidence against automation being applied.

... 'pew' sound ... until i hit stop. then the noise dissapers ... If "Software Playthrough" in Audacity preferences is ticked , un-ticking it could stop the Eeeoow sound happening when you try to record ... Audacity preferences, Recording, ''Software Playthrough'' is un-ticked.png http:/...

There must be control somewhere on the mixer to stop the loop-back ...
http://shopwl.com/content/MG10%20Mixing ... Manual.pdf

terryken wrote:have right clicked speaker icon disabled conextant smart audio audio HD audacity still records low sound of the backing track with the voice ?

If your mixer is connected to the computer via USB, (rather than "line-in"), that could be a way for the backing track to leak out.

... unable to find stereo mix to turn it off ... To see Windows recording devices, (like "stereo mix"), put the cursor over the Windows loudspeaker icon, then press the right mouse button, then something like this should appear ... http://thewindowsclub.thewindowsclubco.netdna-cdn.com/wp-...

" tovarisch " on librivox isn't obeying the -7dB rule ... Librivox's ''tovarisch'' has peak audio of 2-454.png His RMS volume value is ~21dB ... Librivox's ''tovarisch'' has RMS audio of ~21dB.png The RMS value is a more accurate measure of the overall volume : it's like an average value, ...

My interpretation of the librivox instructions is that the peak volume should never exceed -7dB. [ Using peak values isn't a reliable way of getting a measure of volume : the recording could have one momentary loud click which would skew the result ]. Is there anyway to see what the dB level is? ......