Audacity Forum

By now I expect several Audacity aficionados are shaking their heads in sorrow. Yes, I know there has to be an easier way than this. Can anyone show me that way? If the music was made with real instruments played by real people, then this is tricky because the tempo, hence the spaces between beats ...

Hello. I have the exact same problem using a USB turntable to digitize some old vinyl. I'm using the USB Codec with input levels all the way up and the recording level is just really low. Check to see if your turntable has a level control (sometimes "hidden" on the underside of the turnta...

rennigeb wrote:Bluestein's FFT(aka chirp z-transform)

What is the case for why this would be a valuable addition to Nyquist?

Alduin's Khajiit wrote:how do I tell it to start and end at those samples? I cannot figure it out

See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/au ... tml#selbar

Start at 1990 samples.
End at 1,304,676 samples.
Don't encode as MP3, AAC or WMA. Export the selection in a lossless format (such as WAV or FLAC) or if you need a compressed format use OGG.

Looking at Steve's slider image, isn't the point of logarithmic sliders that you get most granularity over the most audibly important volume ranges? Absolutely. That is entirely the point. For the sake of simplicity, let's say that you have a linear slider where 0 dB to -1 dB is 1 cm. Taking < -96 ...

Have you looked at the alternative audio track views, such as "spectrogram" and "Pitch (EAC)"?
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tr ... _menu.html

I disagree a Frequency control is "advanced". Unfortunately it's not quite as simple as just adding a frequency control. In order for both the bass slider and treble slider to work correctly, there would need to be a separate frequency control for each. That in itself may still be OK for ...

Gale Andrews wrote:If you have not found it yet, there was an expand/collapse button in Metadata Editor in 1.3.2 and 1.3.3 release.

Terrific, thanks. Just what I was looking for.

Edgar wrote:generally, I hate logarithmic controls

I presume that you don't use the Mixerboard. Compared to "Mixer Windows" in other multi-track programs, the sliders in the Audacity Mixerboard are horribly clumsy.

This is a logarithmic slider.