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by steve
Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:20 pm
Forum: Mac OS X
Topic: Audacity takes an age to load up, then crashes. ALSO..
Replies: 33
Views: 7901

Re: Audacity takes an age to load up, then crashes. ALSO..

Why does the beta crash all the time upon opening? It may be falling over an unsupported plug-in on your system (either an AudioUnits or VST plug-in). Usually the suggestion would be to temporarily disable AU and VST in Audacity Preferences, but it doesn't sound like Audacity is giving you that opp...
by steve
Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:58 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: I get a watery sound when removing noise in audacity
Replies: 80
Views: 26567

Re: I get a watery sound when removing noise in audacity

Let's try and keep it friendly everyone.
Thanks
by steve
Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:51 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: I get a watery sound when removing noise in audacity
Replies: 80
Views: 26567

Re: I get a watery sound when removing noise in audacity

I'm willing to live with what most professionals would consider "crap" because I don't need anything fancy. I'm with you - Your question could be written "how do I get a less crap recording than my current really crap recording for about 50 bucks?" :D Have I got that right? So c...
by steve
Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:09 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Defining Songs.
Replies: 15
Views: 1755

Re: Defining Songs.

While you are still working on the project, "Save" it as an Audacity project. (Exporting as a WAV file is a good way to make backups). When you have finished, you will want to create a series of WAV files - one file for each track. These files can then be played individually, imported into...
by steve
Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:57 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: How to differentiate tracks?
Replies: 2
Views: 399

Re: How to differentiate tracks?

you can slide the tracks to make them line up in the sequence you want You do that using the "Time Shift" tool, which is selected either by clicking the button with the double headed arrow <--> or by pressing F5 key. The quickest way back to the normal "Selection" tool is by pre...
by steve
Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:05 am
Forum: General Audio Programming
Topic: How to compute SPL from sound inputed from a microphone.
Replies: 42
Views: 50694

Re: How to compute SPL from sound inputed from a microphone.

(snd-aargh (experience lisp me)) You do have a text editor that matches parentheses don't you? I started off using one that didn't and I had mismatched parentheses on every other line. Automatic syntax highlighting also helps a lot. Do you have these bookmarks? http://www.audacity-forum.de/download/...
by steve
Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:21 am
Forum: General Audio Programming
Topic: How to compute SPL from sound inputed from a microphone.
Replies: 42
Views: 50694

Re: How to compute SPL from sound inputed from a microphone.

Oh good :) So what is this "replacement" thing that you want? So I could read chunks of data from the sound, and calculate the average of each array using some regular lisp array average function? You can read chunks of data from the sound, but I'm not aware of a lisp array average functio...
by steve
Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:09 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: I get a watery sound when removing noise in audacity
Replies: 80
Views: 26567

Re: I get a watery sound when removing noise in audacity

If you could push it to about 70 bucks you should be able to pick up a USB large diaphragm condenser microphone. I'm not a big fan of USB recording microphones, but in this price range it is probably the best option. Cheap sound cards are notorious for having noisy microphone inputs (particularly la...
by steve
Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:27 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: I get a watery sound when removing noise in audacity
Replies: 80
Views: 26567

Re: I get a watery sound when removing noise in audacity

cwaugh18 wrote:I don't want to pay much
Could you define "much" :)