Audacity Forum

The download that you want has a direct link on this page: http://audacityteam.org/download/windows Near the top of the page: Recommended Downloads - Latest Version of Audacity Audacity 2.0.3 installer (.exe file, 20.3 MB, including help files) for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 I've just...

now by mounting another drive do u mean to save the output file as one? I'm referring to the Audacity temp directory. Until you save the project, Audacity saves the audio data when recording in a "temp" directory, The location of the temp directory can be seen (and if necessary changed) i...

Audacity is not well suited to running from a Live CD (which is probably why most Live CDs do not include Audacity). When running a Live CD, typically what happens is that a virtual drive is created in RAM and Linux is installed onto the virtual disk. Of course this means that the "disk" i...

raphael wrote:is "playback volume" in the upper right corner, or somewhere else? thanks.

It's on your MP3 player, or iPod, or whatever you are using to listen to the tracks.

Upgrading is recommended,
Are you using the official download location - http://audacityteam.org/download/

Please follow the instructions here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#lame I have checked the link on that page and it is working. If your computer does not allow you to download Lame_v3.99.3_for_Windows.exe then you may need to adjust the security settings on ...

Damienb wrote:Try passing some compression over each file before you export from Audacity

I'd suggest not doing that unless you like your music lifeless. (just a matter of opinion, and I'm not a fan of the loudness war)

DVDdoug wrote:Effect -> Amplify and adjust somewhere between -40dB & -80dB.

What is the point of doing that?
The original message specified "without background", so why not just turn down the playback volume?

I am asking for what simple steps I must use to record silent subliminal messages without background, either by adjusting the frequency, or lowering the volume to a lower level that is inaudible. To adjust the volume below that which is audible, you need do nothing to the recording - just turn down...

The problem can be clearly seen in the spectrum muffles.png Nearly all if the sound energy is below 800 Hz and there is very little sound above about 1000 Hz. It is the frequencies between about 1000 and 7000 Hz that makes voices bright and clear but they are almost completely missing. The recording...