Audacity Forum

A few questions: While you are recording, is the sound coming of the laptop speakers? With the current settings in the Windows Control Panel and the settings that we decided on for Audacity Preferences - did Audacity appear to be recording, but just producing a flat line in the new track? If both qu...

Bass/Treble effect (with optional Overload Protection)
Help screen (now only one) updated and Technical Details moved into comments.

"line level converter" is a bit of an ambiguous term, but usually it refers to a device that can convert a speaker output signal to a balance line level signal. "Passive" ones are basically specially designed transformers with appropriate (may be adjustable) load circuits on the ...

How loud are you getting it? If your recorded wave is around half the track height, that's fine (close to ideal for recording). The track can always be made louder later by using the "Amplify" effect.

However you may be able to automate part(s) of your repetetive processing by defining one or more chains. That's an interesting idea Trebor. I don't know how much it would really help with this particular task, but for other repetitive tasks it could greatly simplify the Quickeys script if most of ...

AFAIK there is no metadata in the .AU files to help.
If you were using Audacity 1.2.x, the files that are created during recording are in numerical order. If using Audacity 1.3.x they are not, and the only thing left to help you is the time stamp, (which I guess is no longer available?)

You're welcome DarkRyeU, and thanks for letting us know which solution eventually solved the problem. The thing I hate about this question (which comes up time and time again) is that there are so many different things that cause the same symptoms, and all we can do is work through them until someon...

It's better if you post in the section of the forum that relates to the version of Audacity that you are using, for example here is the forum for Audacity 1.3.x on Windows: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewforum.php?f=16 The information below applies ONLY to Audacity 1.3.x (the old 1.2.x versions c...

The first thing that I would try is setting Audacity to record at 44100 Hz rather than 96 kHz. The native format of the data from the microphone will almost certainly be either 16 bit 44.1 kHz, or (less likely) 16 bit 48 kHz, so there is no advantage to increasing the sample rate to 96 kHz, it just ...

Now that you have switched the Audacity input to USB, the "room sounds" should have disappeared. Click the Windows Start button > Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Sound (if you're using "Classic View" there's a direct link to "Sound" in the Control Panel), then clic...