Audacity Forum

chessman wrote:As you can see I have my audacity working folder set to "D:temp" which is on a 2TB hard drive formatted with NTFS

How is the drive connected to the computer?

The recommended version of Audacity for Windows Vista and Win 7 is Audacity 1.3.13 http://audacityteam.org/download/ I would also highly recommend it for XP. If available, use the microphone mixer control to lower the input level. From your picture I can see that it is set at maximum (the slider wit...

What sort of microphone are you using (make and model number)? If it is a USB microphone, does it have a headphone socket on it? (like this microphone http://www.bluemic.com/yeti/#/desc/ ) If it is a conventional computer microphone that plugs into your computer sound card, use the second method des...

"Ramp Panning" http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqui ... mp_Panning
This effect does not use the "Pan" slider - it requires that the track is a stereo track and it adjusts the volume of the left/right channels to create the panning effect.

How are you exporting the file from Audacity? (please list all the steps and every button click)

"sendspace.com" sometimes has pretty aggressive advertising (not a problem if you use Firefox as your web browser and use ad blocking) but you don't need to set up an account and you don't need to submit an e-mail address or remember any passwords. We can go so far with descriptions, but i...

Maybe using another mp3 encoder? All MP3 encoders do it. It's not a bug in the encoder, it's a "feature" of the MP3 format. Even if you trim off the silence, if the file remains as an MP3 there will still be a short silence at the beginning (of indeterminate length). The way to avoid this...

willvenables wrote:Also, when i change the project sample rate to 3200 - the noise goes.

Is that a typo?

There's currently no way to do that in Audacity, but have a look at SoX

Audacity does not support multi-channel playback.
You can Export multi-channel audio files from Audacity, but to get the surround sound effect you need to play the file in an application that supports surround sound.