Audacity Forum

What sort of microphone are you using and how is it connected to the computer?

The easiest way is to get hold of a second computer and send an AUX out from the mixing desk to the second computer. Audacity can only record from one device at a time so you can't record from a USB microphone and from your sound card at the same time. A more complicated method that may work on one ...

I have tried the "compressor" effect but the peaks are not changed at all. Use Audacity 1.3.13 - the effects that you need are much better in 1.3.13 than in the old 1.2.6 version. Use "Amplify" on the track first (with default settings). Then Apply the compressor and select &quo...

I presume that if you listen to tapes on the Sony without the computer, then you don't hear ticking from the Sony? == hear ticking Well that's pretty clear cut then - If you hear that clicking when using the Sony on its own and not connected to the computer then it's a fault on the Sony. Do you sti...

when I put the audacity metronome on I presume that you mean that you create a "Click Track" (Generate menu > Click Track)? If this track is being recorded onto new recorded tracks, it is either because your sound card is set to record from a microphone and play back through speakers and ...

Is this a standard Ubuntu set-up with PulseAudio installed and running?

You've posted in the Audacity 1.2.x part of the forum. Which version of Audacity are you using? (Look in Help > About Audacity for the full version number).

i guess during the recording process of the original song, they make the instrumental by just muting the vocal track and doing a some kind of second export of the original without the vox, Yes, if you have access to the original multi-track recording it is a trivial job to make a mix of whichever p...

If you have one copy of a full-mix song, and another copy of the exact same recording but without the vocals, then you can import the two songs into Audacity, carefully line them up one below the other (using the Time Shift tool), then Invert (Effect) one of the tracks, and finally mix the two track...

I can't record cassettes without using the player What I meant was for you to make a recording of silence / nothing with the cassette player not connected to the computer. If you still get the ticking when the cassette player is not connected, then we will know that the problem has nothing to do wi...

How do I Playback a Single track not multiples at the same time Click the "Solo" button on the track that you want to hear. I have rather a large collection to convert. If you are only wanting to convert from one format to another, there are much better programs than Audacity for that job...