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@everyone I'm not the biggest fan of Mac Spotlight Search. I know there are ways of making text-only Terminal do a search. Someone with Linux talents can comment. find <path> -name <filename> Example, to search recursively for a file that begins with "News", starting from the current fold...

Now, I can't help but notice that the positive peaks are bigger than the negative peaks. Is it possible that voice recordings typically have that phenomenon? Natural sound sources are rarely "exactly" symmetrical, though most usually appear fairly symmetric. Brass instruments are often no...

stanrob wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 04, 2021 3:54 pm

I do remain curious why Remove DC Offset is offered as an option for Normalize.

Haha - that has been fiercely disputed for at least a decade
Personally I think that DC Offset should be a separate effect in its own right.

Record as stereo (that's the only way to get both mics with your hardware). After recording you have options: 1. You could "Tracks menu > Mix > Mix Stereo down to Mono" (see: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tracks_menu_mix.html) 2. If you want partial separation between the voices (one...

On my i7 laptop, exporting a 1 hour, stereo, 44100 Hz sample rate track as 16-bit WAV to an internal SSD drive takes about 20 seconds. Would anyone be able to tell me how long it should take for 8-10 hour recordings to save? In WAV format, it would probably fail because the maximum size for WAV form...

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What I need is to be able to record the other parties voice onto my phone as I'm talking into an separate mic into audacity The easy way to do it is to use a mobile phone and put it on speaker phone. Hold the phone to the side of your head so that it is facing the microphone. The mic will then reco...

See if this fixes it:
How can I prevent clicky recordings on Mac?

There's two main problems with that audio: 1. The recording level is too high, causing "clipping" distortion. Solution: The recording level needs to be reduced so that the peaks fit easily inside the track. It's a good idea to aim for waveforms that are about half the track height. 2. The ...

Mungojassie wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 26, 2021 4:29 pm

a log that can be accessed after closing a project be created

How does that work? How long would Audacity retain that log? Would there be an ever growing log of everything you do in every project forever?