Audacity Forum

I've tested the plug-in by recording "Stereo Mix" (in effect, testing the sound card) and it gives a reading of around 0.06% Testing it by playing the sound through PC speakers and recording with a cheap PC microphone gives a reading of around 6% The results vary depending on the test freq...

The nulling business was complicated because the instrument was working with a physical dual "T" filter, a very high Q notch filter with several branches and variables to take out the original tone and nothing else. If the test signal is always a sine wave, then that simplifies matters co...

Click on the track name.

If you "collapse all tracks" (view menu) you can drag tracks up and down much more quickly.

Use the "Time Shift Tool" (double headed arrow) to drag the contents of each track left/right to appropriate position.

Have a go with Audacity 1.3.7 - many users find it more stable than 1.2.6, and it is certainly better at recovery if anything does go wrong.

Just so I am sure about this, if you rip a cd track using Windows Media Player as a wav file is this 32 bit or 16bit? CDs are 16bit, so when you rip them you will get a 16 bit file. Audacity can "up-sample" the 16 bit file to 32 bit (up-sampling is lossless). The (small) gains that you ma...

whazzupgreenfrog wrote:Do you know of anything that's quicker/more efficient to accomplish this conversion?

Yes, the next version of Audacity.

Audacity 1.3.8 alpha has a new feature - "Split to Mono".
http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic ... 46&p=35335

I'm not sure if Chris's dynamic compressor works with Audacity 1.2 - you may need to upgrade to Audacity 1.3 Another good (but different) compressor is the "SC4 compressor" - for maximising sounds, the SC4 is probably better than Chris's (Chris's compressor excels at evening out dynamics a...

Try updating to Audacity 1.3 - this resolves most of the Vista issues.