Audacity Forum

My guess is that loopster is having an electric guitar lesson and has a recorder running during the lesson so that he can listen to it again later but does not want to be messing around doing anything that detracts from the lesson. I doubt that the problem would occur with acoustic guitars. I would ...

I know that (that's what I'll be taking advantage of if I have to just re-apply normalize to everything), but can it determine whether or not a file has been normalized w/out having to read it in to the editor, e.g., when used in a chain? For 10000 files, approx. 7000 of which have already been nor...

Audacity does not have adaptive filter that takes out the baseline noise during the recording, but your sound card may have and if you are using the microphone input on a laptop computer then there is a very good chance that it has. You will need to go into your sound card settings to turn it off. N...

The amplitudes are stored as floats between + and -1??? In Audacity, yes. After it has been exported as an audio file, then it depends on the file format. A quick way in Audacity to see if a file has been normalized: Select the "Amplify" effect and if the track has been normalised to 0dB ...

Sorry internet, I don't know. That all looks fine. You said that you are using Vista, and you've checked the default playback and record settings in Windows Control Panel?

Thanks for your comments gcsmithbmc. I'm not sure what the difference is between the ZIP version and the EXE version, but as you say, they are different. I always recommend that people use the ZIP version as that always seems to work even in the (relatively rare) case when the EXE does not work. For...

whomper wrote:start/settings/controlpanel/realtek/mixer/record/...

And what if they do not have a RealTek icon in the control panel?

I CAN record, but it's very low. If you are recording from a microphone plugged into your sound card (little round jack plug), go back to your computer's sound options and look for a setting to "boost" (may be labeled "+20dB" ) the microphone input. If you are recording in some ...

If you go into Audacity Preferences > Devices, does it still say no devices found?

If you normalized a track to 0dB in Audacity there will be at least one sample per track that is + or - 1.0. However, since Normalizing works to bring the highest peak up to the target level there may only be one sample that is at +/- 1.0 and it could be anywhere in the track.