Audacity Forum

Audacity 1.3.12 (.exe) for Windows 2000/XP/Vista. Go to this page: http://audacityteam.org/download/ Where it says "best version for Windows 7" - that links to a page that you should read. Where it says " Windows 1.3.12" - that link takes you to this page: http://audacityteam.org...

sarah.a wrote:I have tried the decibel scale but it returns negative results (-36) which is ridiculous.

The decibel scale in Audacity, as with most other audio applications is Decibels relative to full scale ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBFS )

That one I have used. Sound quality is pretty good. The box is plastic. Sometimes it does not initialise correctly after the computer is rebooted, but to fix that you just need to use "Safely remove hardware" and remove 2 drivers, then switch it off for a few seconds, then switch it back o...

I think that device is solid state (no tubes). http://www.artproaudio.com/products.asp ... t=9&id=150
The maximum gain is somewhat lower than the tube version. http://www.artproaudio.com/products.asp ... t=9&id=124

"Computer microphones" almost always have a "stereo" jack. This is not because they are stereo, but because they are "electret" microphones and require a low voltage (5 v) power supply to operate. The additional connection on the mini-jack plug is used to supply a low v...

Ooh, all those upper case letters are hard on my tired old eyes :( Audacity works with "Projects". An Audacity Project is made up of two parts - there is a ".AUP" file (Audacity Project File) and a "_data" folder that contains audio data. The actual "sounds" i...

Unlike Dolby B, Dolby C is in my experience much more forgiving of playback without Dolby decoding. For Dolby B the encoding/decoding was heavily biased on the "pre-emphasis/de-emphasis" of high frequencies, (but also dependant on the level). The result is that playback without decoding al...

Which version of Audacity are you using? (look in "Help menu > About Audacity")

good luck.

Yes it will be version 2.3
I expect this will be the final version unless there are any major upgrades to Audacity-Nyquist.