Audacity Forum

Recording from a cassette recorder it seems to put a pause in when ever it wants What is putting in a pause? Audacity? Do you mean that it is adding silence, or removing parts? If you mean that Audacity is going into "Pause mode" (not recording), go into the Transport menu and turn off &q...

sample3.wav 1) Equalization eq.png 2) Notch filter at 60, 120, 180, 240, 300Hz. You can do this by using the Audacity Notch filter 5 times. I did it using this code in the Nyquist Prompt effect (just once): (notch2 (notch2 (notch2 (notch2 (notch2 s 60 1) 120 2) 180 4) 240 8) 300 16) 3) Noise Remova...

According to Wikipedia, "standard" 5 channel audio does not have a LFE channel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surround_sound#Standard_speaker_channels What are you running the Cambridge FPS2000 from - a SoundBlaster Live? Although the Cambridge FPS2000 manual is rather vague, it seems to im...

2. im aware of zooming, but since this material has noise and a cut point between a fade out/in it is a bit hard to tell visually , so i better rely on my ears when searching for the beginning. Select the part that you think that you need to delete. Amplify it (default settings) and play, just to c...

Looping: All of the shortcuts mentioned are also available in the menus. Using the shortcuts is a lot faster once you get used to them. Trim the track roughly, allowing just a little bit extra at each end. Make a copy of the track and paste it at the end of the original. (Tip: "K" key wil...

What about a command line interface for Audacity? I would be great to batch convert audio files! ;) If you are using an external encoder you can use command line options. See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/exporting_to_an_external_program.html Audacity has some (limited) support for batch pr...

At which point either the recording engineer dials up the gain by +5.9db and does another recording, That depends on where you are "dialling in the gain". For example, if you are using a USB interface the software gain should be set to unity gain, so as to get full 16 bit resolution from ...

hellosailor wrote: Sure, you can watch the VU meters, but you STILL have to watch them for the course of the entire recording (album, LP).

No, you just need to look at the peak indicator at the end of the recording.

I expect that FFmpeg will add this in due course.

kozikowski wrote:They're in the drop-down to the left of the track.

Click on the track name at the top of the "box" on the left end of the track.

To join two mono tracks into a stereo track, select "Make Stereo Track" from the drop-down menu of the upper track.