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by steve
Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:38 am
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: Interview subjects talk too loudly!
Replies: 10
Views: 2798

Re: Interview subjects talk too loudly!

You may have some degree of success reducing the distortion by using the "ClipFix" plug-in. There is not much you can do about the relative levels of the voices if it is all recorded on the same track apart from perhaps a little Eq and a bit of dynamic compression. The real solution is to ...
by steve
Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:26 am
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: Multivoice Chorus Plug in SETTINGS?!!!
Replies: 3
Views: 1943

Re: Multivoice Chorus Plug in SETTINGS?!!!

You downloaded it from where? Were there any instructions with it? Did it come with a "ReadMe" file? Why do you want a Multivoice Chorus plug-in? What effect are you trying to achieve? Have you used a multi-voice chorus effect before? Do you know what it is supposed to do? What's wrong wit...
by steve
Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:22 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: recording from a dj mixer?
Replies: 3
Views: 555

Re: recording from a dj mixer?

When you have finished all the recording, editing, mixing, processing and anything else that you are doing, but before you Export your finished masterpiece, you could use the "Amplify" effect to bring the level of the track up to the maximum possible level before distortion. Simply by sele...
by steve
Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:02 am
Forum: General Feedback and Discussion
Topic: Balancing the channels
Replies: 8
Views: 1547

Re: Balancing the channels

Note that when you mix the channels, either by selecting them and choosing "Mix and Render" from the Tracks menu, or just by Exporting (from the File menu, which will automatically mix the tracks), if you have the levels too high, the track may distort. When multi-tracking, it is usually b...
by steve
Fri Feb 27, 2009 3:44 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Audacity Won't Play My Song!
Replies: 9
Views: 7147

Re: Audacity Won't Play My Song!

So I should download Audacity 1.3? What was the original question.... (looks back through previous posts)... how to edit a WMA file? Yes. the latest version of Audacity supports WMA with the aid of FFmpeg (an additional program), but it is a very new feature and can be a bit tricky to set up. The e...
by steve
Fri Feb 27, 2009 3:28 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: no signal when recording original music
Replies: 12
Views: 1045

Re: no signal when recording original music

I run through an M-audio Firewire Solo device and am trying to record guitars and vocals (multiple tracks of each) into my PC OK, having been to bed, got up and had a nice cup of tea... Firewire.. yes got it now. So that's "guitars and vocals" into the M-audio firewire solo.... (analogue ...
by steve
Fri Feb 27, 2009 3:15 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Improving quality of Poor Tape to CD Conversion
Replies: 19
Views: 3607

Re: Improving quality of Poor Tape to CD Conversion

A while ago I had a look at making a click removal plug-in, and came up with something that worked really well on my test samples. Waxcylinder kindly sent me a load of audio samples with lots of clicks and crackles, and with disappointment I found that my plug-in was completely ineffectual - they we...
by steve
Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:53 am
Forum: Recording Equipment
Topic: Novation Nio USB Audio/MIDI / Audacity
Replies: 9
Views: 3808

Re: Novation Nio USB Audio/MIDI / Audacity

...but I still don't undertand how my old Audiophile PCI soundcard worked with Audacity cos that was set up to run with ASIO drivers You must have also had Windows drivers installed as well as the ASIO drivers. (You can have both installed and ASIO compatible programs will use the ASIO drivers, whi...
by steve
Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:45 am
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: How to retrieved deleted part in a saved project?
Replies: 3
Views: 705

Re: How to retrieved deleted part in a saved project?

If you open / import a file called "original.wav" (for example), edit it and save it as "newfile.wav", then the file "original.wav" will still exist and will effectively be "untouched". However, if you open / import a file "original.wav", and edit it...