Audacity Forum

... prioritized Audacity to real time, and that seems to have helped. "Real-time" CPU priority is not recommended as that can cause the computer to become unresponsive / crash ... You should almost never use REALTIME_PRIORITY_CLASS, because this interrupts system threads that manage mouse...

... Sounds to me like the CPU was struggling for resources when you were recording. Check what processes are running and see if you can disable any unnecessary things running in the background ... Ditto . Also try increasing the CPU-priority of Audacity so it is less likely to be interrupted by oth...

...But the sound is already low, much lower than when I hear the file frpm within the zoom. You could amplify the sound to 0dB once it is in Audacity : that should make it louder Amplify to 0dB in Audacity.png If it's a stereo-recording it's possible for the waveform to cancel-out ( destructive int...

ratatouille wrote:...What can be done to get a good loudness with Audacity as with the zoom?

Try moving the playback-volume slider to the right ...


http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/mixer_toolbar.html

I have my phones plugged into a Blue Yeti and wish to lower the amount of bass I am hearing. What I am hearing on playback is not what I am getting while recording. There are free VST plugin equalizers which have realtime adjustment, e.g. Voxengo but in Audacity they will only work on playback of r...

I just got a Roland TD-1K drum kit. ... but can't seem to figure out how to HEAR what I'm playing while recording ... If this is all the sockets it has ... TD-1_Side.jpg Then you could use an adapter to share the output between the headphones and the computer's line-in , ( not computer mic-in). ada...

ratter wrote:Trebor, thank you for your advice , i will give it a go and post back my results .

There's a video-tutorial on Audacity+Avidemux here ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS1zl_SMRbk

... I have downloaded Audacity 2.1.0 to my rather obsolete Widows 10 laptop in the hope of "pulling forward" the background voices so that they are more audible as they approach the main recorded area . Could anybody advise if this is possible and if so how would i do it.Thanks It is poss...

Someone did manage to cure a pitch-drop in recordings by disabling Windows-enhancements ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 93#p316993
( in their case the problem was only on mono recordings )

... starting 100% Right and eventually panning 100% Left ... There is a free Audacity plugin which will do that, see ... http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyquist_Effect_Plug-ins#Ramp_Panning You could also do the same with one of Audacity's native effects : " crossfade tracks ", if you t...