Audacity Forum

What sort of sound card / audio device are you using?
How much free disk space on your C: drive?
Is there rapid disk activity when Audacity freezes?

A metallic tick:

Kris The Drunk wrote:I have four usb snowball mics plugged into my laptop, and record into separate tracks for each mic in the recording program on my computer.

How are you doing that? What recording program are you using? How are you keeping the 4 USB microphones synchronised?

That's a little messy. Audacity always works internally at 32-bit floating. If your show equipment also runs at 32-floating, then there is zero conversion damage when you manage and edit your show. If you start out life at 16-bit, then Audacity has to convert twice, once in and once out. As good as...

And a synthesized click based on Brookshire's Marimba click:

Thanks Brookshire, most helpful.

Here is my first shot at a "traditional wooden metronome" synthesized in Nyquist.

rmcellig wrote:When I select Stereo Track to mono, this is blending both left and right channels into a mono file right?

Spot on

It's quite a common question (every month I guess on average) that people ask how to change the sound. Personally I quite like the default "ping", though I think the "noise" option is a bit lame. If we know what sound users want then I think that the best option would be to rip ...

(stretch-abs 15 (reson (s-exp (mult (osc 69))) (pwl 0.150 1 3500 1) 11 20)) I'm not sure what you are trying to do, but that code is not correct. it is possible to write a code which generates a sound affected by a compression identical to the regulations indicated above. It should be possible to r...

Recording from Skype can be tricky because Skype aggressively manages the sound system. Fortunately there are programs that are specifically designed to record from Skype. "Pamela" is a non-free commercial Skype recorder with a good reputation. Skype Call Recorder is free and open source, ...