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No, I'm just saying the words "noise floor" mean the sum of all noise in your recordings. Audacity doesn't measure that.

Where are you seeing Audacity list a noise floor in dB?

Confirmed. Would be pretty useless, wouldn't it? Why would anyone ever require that kind of precision? Generally speaking, 3 dB is about what most people hear as a minimum in sound volume change. Some say they can hear 1 dB difference. But absolutely no one even pretends to be able to hear .1 dB dif...

Audacity 2.1.1 RC (forgot which one and I'm not near that machine right now) and 2.1.0 open just fine on my El Capitan beta. It's not the most recent beta of El Capitan. But I was under the impression that later beta's should be more compatible, not less... Have you checked the Console (in /Applicat...

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Now it gets interesting...

You're the first person I ever encountered using one of these. They are kind of expensive if you just want to test one.

You can't adjust the noise floor by turning a knob. Or by making a setting in Audacity. The noise floor is the sum of mic noise and preamp noise with background noise picked up by your microphone. Part of it is pure hiss (white noise) and some of it is natural noise (wind, breathing, other sounds). ...

These interfaces all plug into a computer. I don't remember a computer being part of the rolling stock. Wasn't this supposed to be a better quality video camcorder or separate sound recorder? The original problem was high noise level as compared to the voices. How do two or four microphones help wi...

I'll second this. It's the relatively small things that can make your workflow fly...

You don't need to turn off the router. Just select another network under the Airport icon (in your Finder menu), connect, give no password and cancel. That should leave the Airport card on, but not connected.

As another test, you could simply switch off wireless...

Audacity 2.1.0 has been recording on and off for periods over an hour all evening yesterday. No errors, no crashes either on Mavericks or Yosemite. I ran all sorts of things in de the background. Both machines had a wireless internet connection all the time. And these machines are a lot like your Ma...

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