Audacity Forum

It bypasses the 6 second limit. There is no "6 second limit". If Audacity stops recording after 6 seconds, then there's something wrong with your set up, it's not a fault in Audacity. You should fix the fault rather than suggesting ways to work round it. I have windows 7, have tried both ...

Soldado266 wrote:The problem is that when I decrease the amplitude to really low, there is an annoying wind like noise exactly when the instruments are playing.

I don't hear any "wind like noise". How are you listening to it?

What format are the files?
Audacity 1.2.x only supports importing WAV, AIFF, Flac, Ogg Vorbis and MP3.

Check in your sound cards' control panel/mixer that you have not muted it or dropped the recording level down to zero.

You do not need to "make a track" before you start recording. When you press the Record button a new track will automatically be created. To hear the first track while recording the second, you should have these options near the bottom of the "Transport" menu: Software Playthroug...

You mean "Generate > Silence"? The default length of the Silence generator is hard coded into Audacity. Unless you modify the Audacity source code and build your own copy of the program this cannot be changed. However, there may be a suitable workaround - what exactly are you doing and why...

I think we are going to need to hear the problem. Could you post a couple of short examples (just a couple of seconds) of (a) the original music, (b) the low level music that demonstrates the noise. Short samples can be uploaded directly to the forum (see "Upload Attachment" below the mess...

picturehead wrote:When I add a new track for backing vocals, it's impossible to play the first track.

More detail please.
Why is it impossible?
How are you recording? What equipment are you using?

Yes. Having done this test using three different guitar leads, the result does produce the following: Plugging in (but not touching the end) produces a very, very slight hum - about 5% of the hum volume that is noted when touching the end. I'm assuming this is just lead quality as each of the three...

"Reverb" is short for "reverberation". It's an effect that simulates the effect of sound bouncing around in the room - for example, a tiled bathroom is more reverberant than a bedroom with soft furnishings, carpet and curtains. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverberation "Dou...