Audacity Forum

Firstly, a "terminology" issue. 16-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit refer to the "bit format" or "bit depth". This is different from "sample rate" or "data rate". The "bit-depth" refers to the numerical precision that is used for each sample value. Th...

It's most likely that most of the hiss is coming from your sound card, though the microphone may also be contributing to the hiss. On-board sound cards and inexpensive sound cards are notorious for producing a lot of hiss on microphone recordings. An inexpensive USB headset microphone is likely to p...

When you set the carrier frequency to 17.5 kHz, that is the centre frequency of processed audio - the actual frequencies go a bit above and below that (though we do limit the frequency spread to a fairly narrow band). This illustration (below) shows the frequency band when setting "CarrierFreq&...

The way they do that in recording studios is that they have one vocalist record onto one track and the other vocalist recorded onto a different track. They can then do anything they like to one voice without affecting the other. If you have a stereo track with one voice entirely on the right and the...

You're running up against the limits of what the format can handle and I can't do anything about that.
Apparently 5th Generation iPods support WAV format though I think only up to 44.1 kHz sample rate.

An alternative approach (and one that I've used myself) is to paste the same size silence each time (the largest silence that you will want), then if you want the silence a bit shorter, select a bit of the pasted silence and delete it (on Windows / Linux that's the "Del" key or "Ctrl+...

gin(e) wrote:I think that this will create confusion.

I think you're right.
With all of the conflicting vested interests one wonders if they will ever sort this out.

See here: http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_source You will need to install "SVN", then run it from a terminal window with the command: svn checkout http://audacity.googlecode.com/svn/audacity-src/trunk/ audacity This command will create a directory "audacity" inside the curr...

Maybe I can cut from quiet spaces and minimize pops. Yes that is likely to help a lot. Where you can't find a suitable quite spot, try to start and end the selection at "Zero Crossing Points" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_crossing You will need to zoom in really close to see the zero ...

on the other hand I realize now that is not so easy to record if you do not know anything about the physics behind the sound and sound frequencies The basics of recording are pretty straightforward, and you appear to now have a pretty good grasp of that. The finer points of audio production are a l...