Audacity Forum

kozikowski wrote:@cyrano I own a C1 microphone and it has significant shortcomings.

I've never tried those. It's an SDC in an LDC housing, IIRC. What's wrong with it?

kbps is "streaming" audio. Nothing to do with audio files. Of course, you can store streaming audio in a file too. How else would the server that "streams" the file over the internet get that to your computer. Streaming is a necessary evil to make internet audio work. The server ...

kozikowski wrote:

condenser like the Behringer B5 (70$)

Do you have such a microphone?

Koz

I have 6 working/original ones and 2 that are being repaired and possibly modded.

All the LDC's, except maybe two are goin' out the door.

"Silence audio" is brutal. Not nice. You could use "amplify" (with a negative number) on breath sounds and noise, or "noise removal". That would take some experimenting to get right, but would sound more natural. I sometimes use envelopes to reduce noise, as it is even ...

I've listened to some of your songs on your website and to test1.wav.. Nice music! I like it a lot. Your're a good recordist too. Good tone. But the low output of the SM57 combined with the noisiness of the Alesis mixer give a -50 dB noise floor. At high gain, these mixers tend to get noisy. You'll ...

Yeah ive dealt with the audacity.cfg before. I know this probably not the best or official procedure but i keep the audacity .zip files for all the versions back to 2.1.0, i just dont keep them in PATH or in apps dir. I usually only have the most current ver of Audacity in apps dir, save for a part...

Audacity has a configuration file, called audacity.cfg. It resides in ~/Library/Application support/audacity/ If you quit Audacity, remove or rename the file and restart Audacity, it'll start up with a blank slate. I've never seen plists or cfg files affecting other programs, though. Not all plugins...

If it is just lead-in and the end you need to remove, you could consider my dumb solution: I never cut these, unless really long. When the job is finished, I select the part I want to keep and use "export selection". That's also because I don't keep projects, but export an archive copy whe...

Okay, back to the OP's problem.

@jbgordon

You wouldn't happen to have FileVault enabled, would you?

Do you happen to have MS Office's Word open while doing the editing in Audacity?

After some hours of testing, Audacity crashed when quitting. Had to kill it. Tried a number of times quitting again - no problem. Checked the log in Audacity. Nothing. When closing the log window with command + w, Audacity asked if I wanted to save. When I answered "No", it didn't close th...