Audacity Forum

AFter using Audacity, version 1.3.9 for Windows 7 You've posted in the Audacity 1.2 part of the forum, but no worries, I'll move it. Upgrading to 1.3.11 is highly recommended as this fixes several known bugs. I reinstalled it, same problem. Reinstalling rarely makes any difference at all because Au...

the pros will tell you that you need the monitor type my ears say otherwise Studio monitors will probably not give you the "nicest" sound, but that is not what they are designed for. For listening to classical/folk/acoustic type music I much prefer to use my hi-fi speakers than my studio ...

For recording purposes, speakers should be as accurate (flat response) as possible. "Studio Monitors" are designed for this purpose and are far more accurate than hi-fi speakers, computer speakers or PA speakers. About the cheapest ones that I have used and could happily recommend are Tann...

you need to check with the interface vendor to see if they support win7 yet and provide the drivers for their box For use with Audacity there must be Windows drivers (WDM or MME). The M-Audio Fast Track Pro & PreSonus FireBox use ASIO drivers by default, but Audacity does not support ASIO (to b...

Some good ones there whomper. I've removed the links to Bobby Owsinski's book "The recording engineer's handbook" on RapidShare as there may be copyright problems there. The book is available from Amazon (now in its second edition), and the majority (though not all) of it is available (fre...

patrickamory wrote:I'm trying to copy and paste a clip from one Audacity project to another.

Why? There may be a better way to achieve the desired result without needing to run multiple instances of Audacity.

Trebor wrote:If you make a mono pair, then invert one of the tracks, and "make stereo pair" they should cancel out (silence) but sometimes they don't.

I can't reproduce that. Perhaps that is a sound card driver issue?

The BIG problem with MP3 compression damage is that it can't be fixed. The MP3 format compresses audio to a smaller size by throwing away the "less important" audio data. The more data that is thrown away, the smaller the file size. This damage cannot be fixed because the missing data has ...

Exactly which version are you using? (See Help menu > About Audacity)

bluereacto wrote:Hi am trying to transfer my clipped audio to go into the ringtone section

The "ringtone section" of what?