Audacity Forum

Recording to RAM should really only be used for machines that have slow hard drives, and it is not an ideal solution because Audacity will run much better if it has as much RAM as possible available for processing rather than it being taken up by recording. For Vista, 64 bit I would expect that you ...

You don't second mic to add reverb You can use one close up microphone for a "dry" recording of the voice and one or two microphones to pick up "room ambiance". It can work very well and produce the most natural sounding ambiance (light reverb), providing that the room is very q...

erdubya wrote:what command (and parameters) can be used for trimming an mp3 to 15 secs starting at the 60 second mark?

Audacity cannot do that as a batch job. With Audacity you would need to edit one file at a time.

When you get your tape player repaired/replaced it may still be worth looking at the UCA 202, purely from a sound quality standpoint.

Open your Audacity Project and check that it is playing correctly.
Assuming that it's OK,
Set the Project Rate to 44100 (bottom right corner of the main Audacity window),
then Export as "WAV (Microsoft) signed 16 bit PCM".

I tried boosting the gain a bit in Audacity but found it added too much distortion. If you use the default settings in the Amplify effect it will amplify as much as possible without distorting, however there are two potential pitfalls: 1) If the original file already had distortion, by making the t...

Have you managed to record something successfully? and does it play correctly in Audacity? If so, exactly what are you doing to export it? It may also be useful to know exactly which version of Windows and which version of Audacity you are using - the Audacity version is shown in the Audacity "...

The current version is Noise Gate v.2.2. (Koz - PM sent)
Personally I thought that the Noise Removal worked very well on that recording.

-24 dB will show up very small because it is a very low level. A good level to record at is with the peaks reaching about half way up the track display, which is equivalent to a peak level of about -6 dB. The meter toolbar can be grabbed with the mouse and moved around and stretched by clicking and ...

kozikowski wrote:How come the Noise Gate failed?

I don't know, but if you post what settings you used I'll check it out. (I presume the sound sample that you posted is the one to test on?)