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If you connect the Zoom to the Mac first, then when the Mac has recognised it, launch Audacity, the mic should show up as a USB recording device in the device toolbar . However, I probably wouldn't bother doing that. The Zoom H4 is totally silent. Is your Mac totally silent or does it have a fan? Al...

There is, at that point, no way I can see to pull focus *out* of that field because everything I try loses my selection Are you talking about the numerical "Selection and Audio Position Boxes" in the Selection Toolbar ? If you are, you can move out of the "Selection Start" box i...

I'm sure it's in the manual somewhere and I'm just not thinking of the right thing to look for. I know what you mean - It's like looking up a word in the dictionary when you don't know how to spell it ;) What you're looking for is "Split Delete" It's in the "Edit menu > Remove Specia...

OK, let me try asking in a different way,
what did you do different from what it says here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... .html#lame

kozikowski wrote:Just for giggles, what happens to a Contrast value if an RMS meter reading is "lumpy?" That is, it hovers around, say -65, but because it's measuring live audio, wanders up to -61 and down to -69.

RMS is an average isn't it - Root Mean Square.

How are you recording the guitar?
What sort of microphone?
How is it connected to your computer?

Best guess: you should be recording in mono. A mono recording will play through both left and right. Mono recording can be set in the device toolbar.

Sorry but I cannot see your computer and I cannot see what you are doing. Unless you describe in detail, step by step, what you are doing and what the problem is, we will not be able to help you. The instructions here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#lame do w...

Well, perhaps I am missing something, but the result I get from clicking on the 'background' of the control panel for the music bed track does not show the *audio* being highlighted as selected, click-to-select.png Shift + Left Click will toggle the track selection. Use Shift + Left Click on each t...

Unfortunately that file is totally corrupted. Nothing in there to salvage.

got a bit stuck on step 3 This should help. 1) Download this file to somewhere that you can find it: split-at-3000.xml 2) Open the Equalization effect and select the "Draw Curves" 3) Click the "Save/Manage Curves" button 4) Click the "Import" button 5) Navigate to wher...