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Why not just take the headphones off and crank up the volume? Or a better solution, get some computer speakers that have a volume control. Even really cheap (less than $5) speakers will do the job. The reason that the situation occurs is that you are recording the sound that is playing through the s...

"Hey Joe" was written in the late 1950's by Billy Roberts and is best known as performed by Jimmi Hendrix. The tab is easily available from a quick Google search. Converting audio into notation is a difficult task for software and even the best specialist audio to notation software makes a...

I've seen some dectective shows on TV where they seem to be able to isolate a sound in the background of a sound recording. (e.g. the sound of a train station AP annoucement in the background of a telephone call). It's mostly fiction, though there are some special case scenarios where separation is...

MP3Gain is an implementation of ReplayGain.

You have three performers in your show. Two are talking loudly and the other is singing quietly in the background. Although we can hear that some of the sound comes from the two louder (human) performers ans some comes from the quieter (radio) performer, as far as Audacity is concerned it is all sou...

All of the Nyquist plug-ins listed here work: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Download_Nyquist_Plug-ins Not all of the "set of over 90 LADSPA plug-ins" work in Audacity (any version) as some of the plug-ins in this set are intended to be used with other audio software. However all the on...

It means that Audacity works with "Projects" not with "files". An "Audacity Project" is made up of a project file that has a file name ending in ".aup" and audio data that may be in a data folder or may be elsewhere. The .aup file does not contain any audio da...

Yes. The display is normalized so that a constant 0 dB sine wave will show as 0 dB.

Assuming they are mono tracks, click on the track name of one track and select "Left Channel" from the drop down menu. Set the other track to "Right Channel". Alternatively use the track Pan sliders. If either of them is a stereo track, either convert the track to mono first (Tra...

There's a couple of possible issues here. 1) Some sound cards will make an audible click when they "turn on". If this is happening then it can't really be avoided without changing your sound card, but what you can do is to insert some silence before the start of the tone so as to separate ...