Audacity Forum

soulstenance wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 09, 2020 3:50 pm

Here's an audio clip

Please export as "WAV". (MP3 encoding mashes the waveform too much to see what exactly is happening).
A short WAV files may be attached directly to your reply (see: viewtopic.php?f=49&t=64936)

Computer specifications?

I have heard more than once on this forum that it's best to record at -20dB or thereabouts. For a home studio set-up, that's a bit low. We generally recommend aiming for a peak level of around -6 dB (about half the track height). What factors should be considered in setting my level? The single mos...

The current version of Audacity is 2.4.2 https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ how do I make an audio track pan from right to left, You could use this plug-in: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyquist_Effect_Plug-ins#Ramp_Panning Installation instruction for installing this Nyquist plug-i...

I'm not sure if "crash" is the correct terminology but it does result in the squished audio, as stated and broken recordings in other apps. Reading through this topic again, I may be trying to offer fixes for the wrong problem. Looking at the "audiodev.txt" file from the "A...

Try:

PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 audacity The "30" is just an arbitrary value (in milliseconds). It sounds like that improved things, but perhaps not enough. You could try increasing that number to say "50" or even "100". Aim for the lowest value that works. There is also a const...

To those who are having the same issue: Here's a video from Youtube and this is the real workaround/resolution. Hope this will help you. Go to the link below. https://youtu.be/Ml_lxjk1ZeE It looks like the underlying problem on your system is the "Droidcam virtual audio device". Is it suf...

The recommended version for Windows 10 is Audacity 2.4.2: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/

Firstly, PulseAudio shouldn't crash when Audacity starts. The commands that Audacity sends during startup are entirely legal and are necessary requests so that Audacity knows what devices are available. If PulseAudio crashes it indicates that there is a problem elsewhere in the sound system, though ...

Do they smoke? If they smoke around their microphone, then the sound may be a little muffled compared to a new microphone. That brown film does affect the sound. Unless the SM58 is really ancient, there will be a thin piece of black foam lining the wire ball. Over time that black foam becomes grey ...