Audacity Forum

There are some civil defense sirens on Freesound ... http://freesound.org/search/?q=+civil+defense

This is not a common problem and I, at least, can't think of a way to intentionally create the error. What about a mismatch in sampling-frequency between Audacity & the sound-card, so it's unintentionally functioning as a frequency-divider , ( like those bat-detectors which make ultrasonic audi...

ATTACHMENTS test.wav (1.02 MiB) That sound like a good recording to me, no "tin pail" effect when I play it on my machine. It could be that your computer's sound-card is applying a pseudo-stereo/3D/reverb effect, so when you play any audio it adds a "tin pail" effect. If that is...

... I have a problem with the playback of the recording that sounds like I'm talking into a tin pail ... An example would be useful, see how to attach sound to a post here ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=72887 Try unchecking (unticking) software playthrough . If you are i...

So that leaves environment. Where's your cellphone during all this? Do you have any BlueTooth equipment or connections? Do you have those Philips LED lightbulbs that change color with the time of day or other stimulus? The artifact seems to correlate with strong sibilance ... artifact seems to corr...

The only other explanation I can think of is sound leaking from headphones and being picked up by the mic, making a feedback loop , that would create noise which would also have a preferred [resonant] frequency, and could be restricted to loud sections. [ but I've never heard feedback sound like sho...

My pop shield doesn't seem to be doing a damn anyhow ... I did a few dry runs this morning without a pop shield and I'm not hearing the squeaks. Which is fab, because I was worried it was a problem with my mic, and it's only a couple months old You should still use a pop shield, if for no other rea...

...I attached a sample. Kind of hoping you'll tell me its in my head and I just need to sleep. Unfortunately its not a hallucination caused by sleep-deprivation, I can hear it too : it's like clarinet, only when volume is loud. I don't think you did that in processing, it's more like a physical res...

There is "2-D stereo tookit" in recent versions of Audacity, it has spin effects ...

mickthefish wrote:.. see if theres anything i can use ...

If you're on Windows then MovieMaker is a (very) basic video-editor from Microsoft & free ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Movie_Maker
It may already be installed on your Windows OS.