Audacity Forum

whomper wrote:i thought it was 6db (square law) every time you doubled the mike distance

Put it in context mate:
"Something we have not looked at much, but since we're talking SNR, the volume level rises rapidly as the microphone approaches the sound source"
You get the general idea don't you?

bobcooper31 wrote:a sample rate of 44100 and a bit rate of 16kbs.

Are you sure about that?
"Sample Rates" refer to the uncompressed audio sample rate.
16kbps is a very low quality bit rate - way below "telephone quality".
The MP3 format does not support 44100Hz sample rate at 16kbps.

Click the Windows "Start" button and select "Control Panel" In the Windows Control Panel find the "Sounds" section and set the default playback device. Exactly how you do this depends on the computer, but there's some pictures here that should give some clues: http://wi...

On Windows "Software Playthrough" should be OFF.

righto, but i want that dot to stay where it was to mark the start of the next cut to export..... Audacity 1.3.9 is an old beta version. As already stated the behaviour of labels has been updated to improve functionality (as part of the ongoing development of Audacity. Please use the latest version...

I don't want to filter it, just trying to avoid the source of it How about placing the microphone a little lower? Sometimes it's easier to position the microphone lower if you turn it upside down so that it's "hanging" rather than standing up. I have to muffle the A string with my thumb s...

Gale Andrews wrote:FFmpeg from Autumn 2009 will definitely work if your repository has such.

So would that currently be be the recommended version of FFMpeg for Linux?

Ok, the problem is in the last line of code, The problem is that part of the file is missing - it just quits part way through the file. As you can see from this article http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/File_Management_Tips Audacity projects are made of two parts - the AUP file (which manages all t...

I've got the ponytail (no flip-flops - too wet and cold here) :) Let's have a look at a couple of spectra (spectrums in the vernacular). (BTW, if you click on these images it should expand the pictures to remove the scroll bars) First lets look at "34-art-usb-sample2-stairway". This one so...

but then when im done recording, it moves it to the right a little and its off track. If the track is moving to the right then you have latency correction set too high . The bigger the latency correction number, the more Audacity will move the track to the right. The more negative the latency corre...