Audacity Forum

As I understand things, even though the project rate changes to match whatever the first wave in the project is, the default sample rate under Quality in Audacity's preferneces still determines how the wave is saved on export. Unfortunately this IS a bit confusing (the price of providing so many op...

You need to specify "audio CD" when you are burning the CD, otherwise you will most likely get a "data CD" which are not compatible with most CD players. I don't use Macs so I can't give specifics. You can probably work it out now that you know what you are looking for, but if yo...

If I had a dollar for every time I've seen (or heard) a microphone being plugged in or unplugged with the phantom power on and the gain turned up on the desk I'd be moderately wealthy. Equipment needs, whenever possible, to be designed to withstand such abuse. The LM317 data sheet provides example s...

Had a quick look through this lengthy thread and don't see the information. Apologies if this is repetition, but could you give the following information: Open Audacity 1.2.6 and look in the following 2 places and report all of the settings; "Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O" "Edit...

I see they use +18V/-18V for voltage supply... is this the standard supply voltage for this kind of audio amps? "Standard"? What's that? :lol: There is no standard voltage for this kind of chip - the "standard" is whatever it says on the data sheet. A typical application for thi...

If you are using Audacity 1.3.11 then most of the meta-data that you enter in Audacity will be written into the exported file. You can check that by opening a new Audacity project, importing the file then opening the metadata editor. Unfortunately that does not mean that other applications will see ...

When you plug in a USB audio device, Windows has a habit of passing the entire sound system over to it. We can help you to configure Windows and Audacity to get round this problem, but the easiest thing to try is just unplugging the turntable and rebooting the computer - that should put everything b...

Oh dear, there is something seriously wrong there. My first thought is that your sound card is faulty.

What sort of microphone/sound card/computer/operating system are you using? (model numbers are useful)

Use Audacity 1.3.11 1) Make the voice recording 2) With the recorded track selected, choose "Effects menu > Equalizer" 3) Select from the Equalizer presets "amradio" and click "OK" 4) (Optional) choose "Effects menu > Leveller" and select one of the heavier de...

<<<Definitely useful doing this as it appears that there is an undocumented change in Nyquist which means that the Noise Gate effect is not compatible with Audacity 1.3.11!>>> That would go right around me. I'm doing this in 1.3.7. I guessed that, and it helped to identify the problem. Since Nyquis...