Audacity Forum

Well, you were right Steve, the 1st try did pretty much turn out to be garbage. Well, it was just the speaker's talk that turned out to be garbage, the choir's songs to start and end the night turned out pretty well. :oops: I was hoping to get there a little earlier, but arrived about 20 minutes bef...

The digital system all uses negative numbers. Zero is maximum volume. That's where the digital system runs out of numbers and starts to distort because it can't follow the performance. -60dB is So Quiet you can hear a Pin Drop. You can use relative numbers. This sound is six dB higher than that. Th...

Thank you, Steve. I'm thinking that perhaps I could set up one of the compression plug-ins or built-ins that come with Audacity that would allow me to set it for the main mic but keep it from clipping if the vocalists have a significantly higher sound level. That won't work. To use a compressor / li...

a couple of recordings I'm planning on doing. I've never used a compressor as I've pretty much only used Audacity for recording off of the radio up to this point, and as I understand things that signal is already compressed... But I'm toying with the idea of trying my hand at doing audio books and h...

BTW, that stereo USB adapter is probably the Behringer UCA202 Audio Interface. You can google it or look on eBay etc., but here's a link to the Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=behringer+uca202+usb&tag=googhydr-20&index=mi&hvadid=1149832541&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=604...

I don't really know how to do it, but I've accidentally activated the envelope tool in the past and struggled with how to get rid of it. But it looks to me like it's probably the tool you are looking for. Here's a page from the tutorial(?) on it: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/envelope_tool.ht...

Any distortion that sounds harsh, peaky, sharp and gritty is likely to add high pitch tones to the show. You may not be able to hear some of them, but the tweeter in your speaker system does. You can tell the tweeter is stressing out by smelling it burning. ... Koz Thanks for the audio lessons. Muc...

The -6 target is assuming a live musical or voice capture. That leaves enough headroom so you can be a little expressive without smashing the meter all the way to the right. Overload in a digital system is very serious. Because of the speakers? I've heard clipping isn't good for them as the signal ...

Win 7. Realtek HD Audio Audacity 2.0.2 Is there any way of recording audio coming from a web site? I've followed various earlier posts and advice but end up with silence being recorded. I've set MME and Stereo Mix I love using Audacity to record streams off of the internet. I used it for years on W...

via Behringer U202 from a stereo. Is that UCA 202? I believe it is. I've had it for at least a couple of years though, so I'm not sure. I thought I could control the recording volume with the slider by the mic. If not, this station has been within an acceptable volume range. But the last time or tw...