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by steve
Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:06 am
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: Adding a threshold to the equalizer
Replies: 8
Views: 1930

Re: Adding a threshold to the equalizer

Personally I think that goes against the purpose of an Equalizer. IMO an Equalizer should be (ideally) free of distortion and adding a clipping control would be confusing to many users. I'm not against the idea as an effect. Currently the only distortion effect that Audacity ships with is the Levell...
by steve
Wed Nov 16, 2011 11:53 pm
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: Vinyl recordings, correct level, amplify/normalize, sample r
Replies: 4
Views: 6790

Re: Vinyl recordings, correct level, amplify/normalize, samp

Nice to see so much detail, it really helps :) 1) Is my recording level acceptable? It looks a little low, but acceptable. From the web site info there does not appear to be any gain control on the Traktor Audio 6, and the quoted 29.1 dB gain is a little on the low side, though some DJ 12" sing...
by steve
Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:26 pm
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: Frequncy handling capabilities
Replies: 2
Views: 885

Re: Frequncy handling capabilities

Your cheap, inexpensive sound card may not make it to 20KHz. The problem is worse - most good/expensive sound cards are specifically designed to cut off not much over 20 kHz so as to reduce picking up interference. For digitally recording frequencies that are substantially above 20 kHz you are like...
by steve
Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:15 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Annoying behavior, which must have a simple fix.
Replies: 11
Views: 4279

Re: Annoying behavior, which must have a simple fix.

AhHa, I see what you mean. I've never noticed the issue before as I'm on Linux and I can just push the main Audacity window onto another Desktop and keep just the toolbar(s) on the original Desktop, but it looks like Windows still has only one Desktop. I've not tried it, but I've several third-party...
by steve
Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:02 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Sliding Scale Clicking (SOLVED)
Replies: 2
Views: 567

Re: Sliding Scale Clicking

I presume that you mean the "Sliding Time Scale / Pitch Shift" effect? As with all time stretch type effects, this effect is inexact because in order to achieve time stretching it is necessary to chop the sound up into little pieces, stretch the pieces then stitch them all back together ag...
by steve
Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:58 pm
Forum: New Plug-Ins
Topic: Cross-Fade (revisited)
Replies: 106
Views: 30079

Re: Cross-Fade (revisited)

steve wrote:Anything else need changing before I post it?
I'll take that as a "no" ;)

Here it is:
cross-fade.ny
(6.39 KiB) Downloaded 490 times
by steve
Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:16 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Need tips on audio editing spoken podcast tracks
Replies: 12
Views: 2737

Re: Need tips on audio editing spoken podcast tracks

JesusJFunk wrote:My usb interface is a Behringer U-control uca200 which as i undertand isnt the greatest one.
They're rather basic, but the sound quality should be quite good.
What sort of microphone and how is it connected to the UCA 200?
by steve
Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:14 pm
Forum: Recording Equipment
Topic: Record & Playback using only USB
Replies: 5
Views: 1821

Re: Record & Playback using only USB

KeySlayer wrote: I used to hook my board directly into my sound card however now I have a USB speaker system and the old way wont work
How many audio outputs are there on your keyboard, and what sort of outputs are they?
by steve
Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:06 pm
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: Compressor: shorter attack/release times?
Replies: 59
Views: 16702

Re: Compressor: shorter attack/release times?

BTW, strangely enough, it works best if I set it to a really short attack time while keeping the release/decay at 1 second. That's why I made my patch to only have 1 decimal place for the Release time. It's not often that a really short Release time is advantageous. I don't recall if you said what ...
by steve
Wed Nov 16, 2011 7:48 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Intermitent sound on playback
Replies: 2
Views: 585

Re: Intermitent sound on playback

Probably missing "dependencies".
See here for a detailed explanation http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Projects