Audacity Forum

Grado cartridges tend to be pretty insensitive to capacitance load. I quite agree though waxy, if available it should be set to the appropriate setting, but it is not likely to make any difference to noise levels, just a slight difference to the high frequency response.

I very much doubt that it will be possible without causing considerable detriment to the sound quality of the remaining audio.

We have already established that Charlie is not using the internal sound card and the noise levels being discussed are with no signal, so tape vs vinyl vs CD comparisons are not relevant. The bit that is relevant is that MM record cartridges produce very low level signals which require a lot of pre-...

Not sure how worthwhile a sticky is as I don't yet know what happens on Ubuntu 10, and I expect a lot of Ubuntu users will be upgrading to 10.04 as that's the latest LTS version. (I'm still on 9.04)

Oops, sorry about the repetition - I took so long looking for that link that Gale got to the "post" button ahead of me

I've moved this topic here as it doesn't really belong in the Audacity 1.2 part of the forum. I'm about to update my SVN build and I'll let you know if I have similar problems, but I expect it will be some sort of dependency issue. Have you successfully built Audacity on that computer before, or is ...

As long as you are only limiting exceptional peaks and not a high percentage of the waveform, the distortion should not be particularly noticeable. It can actually be quite a pleasing effect on snare drums and other indefinite-pitched instruments. The distortion creates odd (as opposed to even) harm...

Those figures sound to be in the right ball park - with a little bit of tweaking, and particularly ensuring that you have good Earthing throughout (to eliminate hum as far as possible) you may be able to get the noise a little lower. I would suspect that the amp that is causing the noise level to ri...

Click on the text links directly below where Gale has quoted your original post.

On my set-up the Audacity input slider is not available - I use the computer sound system settings instead, but whatever method you use the input level should be set so as to record at "normal" level ("normal" depends on the type of thing you are recording, but for recording viny...