Audacity Forum

I know you said it isn't an option, but I agree with Koz that the "re-shoot" filter is the best option. Here's a short sample from your recording after: Massively reducing the pops with a "limiter", High pass filter, Amplification, Manually reducing a couple of the worst pops. 2n...

Assuming that the amplitude of vocals wave is always bigger than the amplitude of the backgrounds waves (which is right most of the time), the signal should be randomly tone down or up (with a probability of 50-50), right? In this picture, the top track is part of a voice recording (zoomed in close...

I'm surprised that Audacity is crashing a lot - are you certain that you are using Audacity 1.3.12 (look in Help menu > About Audacity). I use Audacity 1.3.12 a lot at work (on Windows XP SP3) and crashes are very rare. When it crashes, is there a log somewhere? There's a log while Audacity is runni...

It sounds like you may have a feedback loop through your mixer.
Check carefully the path that is being taken through the mixer and ensure that the computer output is not being routed back into the computer input.

Let's stick with the 1.3.12 version of Audacity (the 1.2.6 version is really old now and there's been no development or bug fixes to the 1.2 series for years - and 1.3.12 is a much better program). Download the file libmp3lame-win-3.98.2.zip from here: http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/ Unzip the file to ex...

If it's a WAV and if you have the "Read uncompressed audio files directly from the original (faster)" option selected in preferences I think that if you save a project it will actually overwrite the original final with the new data. No it doesn't. If you import a WAV file and have "R...

MP3 files are a lot smaller than WAV files - that makes them good for MP3 players, or sending by e-mail. There is a trade-off with the MP3 format - in order to make the file size small, some of the audio data is discarded. This produces the (much) smaller file size, but looses a little bit of sound ...

Lets say that you have a file called "backing.wav" and you want to play that track while recording yourself with a microphone onto a new track. First you need to connect your microphone and set-up your sound card to record from the microphone. This may be slightly different on your compute...

I unmuted "Internal Analog Stereo", and Audacity "records" fine. Is this all I have to do? If it works, then yes, that's all. Just as a bit of an overview of what happens with PulseAudio: When Audacity is stopped it does not have any sound ports open. When Audacity is put into &...