Audacity Forum

Unfortunately, when you amplify the voice it will also amplify the background noise. It can sometimes make it a bit easier to hear what someone is saying if you remove low frequencies (below about 300Hz) and high frequencies (above about 7kHz). You can do that with the Equalizer effect in the effect...

+1 for manuals and wiki, but if there is a "Documentation" link, then does there need to be 3 links in the forum header? (Tips and Tutorials are in the wiki)
What about the FAQs? http://audacityteam.org/help/faq

See here for the difference between "Audacity Projects" and "Audio Files" http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/File_Management_Tips

I presume that you are using Audacity 1.3.11? If you are using an earlier version it's time to update. To split a track at a particular point, click on the track where you want the split (you can zoom in and use the left/right cursor keys to fine tune the position). Click Ctrl+I (or select "Spl...

I was just going to buy a basic Behringer UCA 202. I have one of these - excellent value for money. It's not technically the highest specification device in the world and there are no bells or whistles, but it works really well and is very inexpensive. I am plugging in RCA cables from my booth moni...

Have you successfully downloaded the Zip version of Lame? Where did you download it from? Have you successfully extracted the "lame-enc.dll" file from the ZIP file? Where did you put the "lame-enc.dll" file? Which version of Audacity do you have? Is this the first version of Auda...

a product without a *good* manual is not worth using Additional volunteers to help write the manual may sign up here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page how hard would it be to make that web thing printable Individual pages may be printed directly from your web browser - most ...

but on playback there was a bad pop on one track no idea how it got there H2 have a problem ? Audacity random bug? problem with one of the effects? other ?? It could have been anything. A glitch on the recording, a noise that you did not notice, a bad edit, a data transfer error, a bad bit of memor...

Do you know what sort of sound card you are using? Is the sound card inside your computer or is it an external USB or Firewire device? If it's internal, have a look in Windows Control Panel in the "Sounds" section and it should give some clue as to the type of sound card. Exactly which ver...

so bug or user error? if so - what does the user need to do differently? To positively identify it as either one or the other you need to tell us how to reproduce the problem, so.... Exactly which operating system? Exactly which version of Audacity (Help menu > About Audacity) Step-by-step method t...