Audacity Forum

The usual method for recording sounds playing on the computer is to set the recording input to "Stereo Mix". This method is specific to Windows, and sadly is often not available on modern machines (particularly with Vista and Win 7). Other methods for Windows are described here: http://man...

Turn off your computer microphone.

rdezell wrote:How do I go about applying the VR tool to that clip? And what is 'vocal removal'?

See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Vocal_Remover

bricoffey wrote: I changed the default setting to "2 channel, 16 Bit, 44100Hz, CD quality, and now it is way worse than it was when it was is mono,

"Worse" in what way? Just that it's half the volume? If so, how does it sound if you apply the Amplify effect after recording?

The quality preferences are for the _stored_ track, not for the real recording format Correct. Audacity does not directly control the bit format of the audio that is captured. Audacity requests the bit format according to the Quality settings, it is then down to the computer sound system to send au...

Go to Edit > Preferences > Effects and uncheck Rescan VST effects next time Audacity is started That option should automatically be not selected. When that option is selected it should only apply to the next time that Audacity is launched, then automatically revert to "not selected". is i...

I suspect that the difference may be due to either; a slight difference in tape head alignment between the cassette recorder used for recording and the cassette player that you are now playing on, or the recording level was turned down a little when side 2 was recorded. The second half sounds a bit ...

In fact, I didn't burn that file to CD, I played it on DVD player (through the receiver) from portable hard drive. The standard sample rate for DVD is 48kHz (48000 Hz). If you are actually making a DVD disk with the audio then recording at 48kHz would probably be best. If you are just "playing...

So I clickon the name of the file that I see on the bottom of the screen and that is when I get an End task error message. What is the full name of the file that you are clicking on? When you say " I see on the bottom of the screen ", what "screen" are you talking about? Most im...

Edit > Clip Boundaries > Detach at Silences (Ctrl+Alt+J) Note that this only works for absolute silence . If your "silences" are very low level audio but not absolute silence , use this noise gate to make the "silence" absolute: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyquist_Effect_Pl...