Audacity Forum

Wrong search, wrong source... Search for "tube mic preamps" and use Google, or whatever search engine you prefer. Most of the stuff on Amazon is fake. Some doesn't even have tubes... And the true classics, like Rupert Neve's designs or Studer clones probably won't even show up. There's an ...

I think Russian Svetlana is still making 12AX7 and 12AU7 new vacuum tubes. You will become acquainted with the reason we all rejoiced when solid-state electronics got good enough so we didn't have to deal with "Fire Bottles" any more. There's a guy in France who does replica's of any glas...

Don't get me wrong, these are very nice mics for a lot of things, just not for narrators. It is however recommended in at least one place by ACX. http://blog.acx.com/2013/09/05/acx-studio-gear-series-part-1-microphones-and-preamps/ One good feature of the NT1-A is that compared to similarly priced ...

That's explained in the release notes. I'll admit those can be a little hard to find, so I'll provide you with a link:

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.1.2

(OS X) The "Window" menu is not currently available.

How useful do you think it is for a visually impaired person to set a track to Spectrogram view, enter the frequencies in Spectral Selection Toolbar, open a spectral effect then receive an error message? I agree that is not user friendly, but displaying the upper and lower frequencies in the wavefo...

Yes, I've decided that condensor mics are not ideal for this sort of work, and my budget. When sales come in, maybe then a top end mic like a Rode... Rode isn't top end. That's Royer, Schoeps, Neumann, ACO Pacific, Sanken, Brauner, Sennheiser MKH and especially the former B&K, now called DPA, n...

The NT1 is even better.... My next major purchase.... at about £200... The 1A is only slightly under this spec. Minimal. I wouldn't advise these mics for audio books. EIN is very, very good, but the tone isn't. Don't get me wrong, these are very nice mics for a lot of things, just not for narrators...

Of course Audacity will open projects made in the previous version. And when installing the new version by dragging it from the disk image (.dmg file) to the Applications folder, the Finder will ask you if you want to replace the old one, or install it next to the old one. In the second case, the Fi...

That's a good point, Gale.

And I already don't remember how exactly I came to that conclusion, so maybe it's wrong...

Some Shure mics are a hype. I can't help that. People pay ludicrous amounts of money for them. The upside is that you can usually sell them 2ndhand for a good price too, because of the hype. But you can get boatloads of good mics for very little money. These get overlooked all the time. That's why y...