Audacity Forum

Just a thought of a specific case where dither should definitely be applied on the second export, and that is if you apply a fade out or fade in. In this case, the level of the original dither will be reduced to less than 1 bit in 16 bit format, and so effectively disappears, so it is necessary to a...

I should also have asked whether the old dither, not having been removed, will be equally effective in masking the new quantization noise occurring during export. It seems to me that, if all that is required is the presence of some low level random noise, then it ought to be (and I haven't yet noti...

You will never get a lot of bass if your loudspeakers are too small to produce a lot of bass. As a general rule, to get low bass with power you need to have big speakers. All speakers have a "cut-off" frequency, which is the lowest frequency that they can effectively reproduce. For very la...

Well I just came back to say the Snowball works PEREFECTLY now that I got a powered USB HUB. Thanks for the feedback. I'll admit that I'm a little surprised that (though very pleasantly surprised) that this fix worked. We've had a few other reports of noise due to poor USB, particularly with Snowba...

The Advanced settings are hidden. Can you make them appear?

How do I get a final mix where I have control of the music bed to pot down on the music so I can hear my voice louder than the music.... Before you mix down, use the Normalize effect on both tracks to bring the level up to maximum, then use the Envelope tool to bring the levels down as required. Wh...

The low frequency component can be isolated and amplified using the Equalization effect. This file is inaudible on my laptop speakers (they are too small to reproduce such low frequencies) but very clear on my big speakers or headphones. Is this the sound that you hear? As others have said, you need...

Also, as far as quality goes, I've read that MP3 compression affects mainly the highs and lows in a file. So, since I'm gonna be recording voices, would the quality still be good as an MP3? MP3 is a lossy compression format. In order to make the file size smaller, some of the information is discard...

auzer666, please get out of your mind that what you really want to do is simple - it's not. The Windows sound system is a basic in/out affair, and that is fine for what it is designed for. Skype works, Audacity works, and your voice changer program works. They are not designed to all work together. ...

I'm no entirely sure what your question is or what you are trying to do, but perhaps the "envelope tool" will help: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/envelope_tool.html