Audacity Forum

I'm a newbie to podcasting and editing audio in general. I have been getting subtle honky sound spots throughout my last few tracks. Maybe 30-50 times in a 35 min track. Its subtle but it sounds like a pig. Is there a way to remove or reduce and how do I prevent it in the future (better mic techniq...

...When I go to export a WAV 16-bit recording I keep getting the message the file is too big, maximum allowed size is 2 MiB. Even when I reduced the length of the mono recording to 1 second, I still received this message. I'm very new to Audacity so I must be doing something wrong. If you select 1 ...

... Enviromental health were involved and did place recording kit inside my flat ...but I had to ... try find their machine in the dark. They didn't leave a remote to start it. Ideally any recording-device should run continuously : 24/7. A cheap voice-recorder (~£15) will run for ~8 hours on a full...

... I mean a way of vertically expanding the waveform - so that eventually it fills the track strip ... I'm not wishing to change the actual volume level, just the graphic display. If you place the cursor over the 0.0 on the vertical scale, then you can use the mouse buttons to zoom in/out ... Demo...

... where do I turn off Windows corrective adjustment? ... Put the cursor on the Windows loudspeaker icon, then press right mouse button. Then left mouse click on "Recording devices", then inspect "Microphone" properties, and disable any "corrective enhancement" you fi...

Maybe contact your local-council's "anti-social behaviour team", but don't get your hopes up ... The cost of putting someone in a prison-cell/padded-cell is a multiple of the cost of them at-liberty on-welfare. So there is financial pressure to leave them where they are. An Audacity displa...

fostercatmom wrote: The audio transcription work is hosted online, and the audio file cannot be downloaded. Therefore, I can't open it with Audacity (more's the pity).

You can record streaming (online) audio in Audacity ... http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tuto ... ndows.html

Maybe we can help a little with a fancy equalizer curve..... This one helps somewhat ... ''Art-Ex'' equalization curve.png Art-Ex.xml ''Art-Geek'', before-after applying the ''Art-Ex'' equalization curve shown.wav However the original has digital-processing artifacts, (particularly noticeable in th...

You have to select* the section you want to delete. Then apply delete . *Use the mouse to place the cursor on the start/end of section, then press left mouse button & drag the cursor to select ... Demo of select with mouse, then delete.gif The background to the selected section is dark grey.

I have a home video that I captured off a vhf tape using an "Easycap usb video capture device". The device saved the video to my Windows 7 computer as an .mp3 file. It all worked ok except for the audio quality. When I open the file and playback the video the sound is awful and not as it ...