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by steve
Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:49 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Unable to open target file
Replies: 4
Views: 388

Re: Unable to open target file

What location (folder/directory) are you trying to Export to?
You have sufficient free disk space?
by steve
Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:45 pm
Forum: Recording Equipment
Topic: help-mic not working
Replies: 1
Views: 656

Re: help-mic not working

If you let us know which forum board would you like this on I'll move it for you. Windows, Mac, Linux? Audacity 1.2.x / 1.3.x? The answers depend on your set-up. Any other information that may help to diagnose the problem? (for example, does the microphone/computer/sound card work? USB microphone?.....
by steve
Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:41 pm
Forum: Mac OS X
Topic: Problems viewing recovery files
Replies: 7
Views: 877

Re: Problems viewing recovery files

taxali88 wrote:Never trust a UNIX team with design.
The main "NIX" used by the Dev team is Mac OS X :o
by steve
Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:34 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: digital effects removal??
Replies: 4
Views: 347

Re: digital effects removal??

@koz; I've noticed that you have commented on film & DVD's a few times. Is there a way that I can use a red filter in a video editor to cancel out the blue screen Chroma-Key effect so that I can watch my Jurassic Park DVD with the actors, but without the scary dinosaurs?
by steve
Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:11 pm
Forum: Recording Equipment
Topic: RCA to USB cables
Replies: 6
Views: 3230

Re: RCA to USB cables

The Behringer UCA 202 has one pair of inputs and one pair of outputs (stereo) My computer is a 500MHz Pentium III with 512 MB RAM and Ubuntu 8.10. I can just about squeeze 10 audio tracks to play simultaneously before it starts glitching, but usually I work with a maximum of about 4 tracks, so it's ...
by steve
Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:58 pm
Forum: Mac OS X
Topic: Importing a 24-bit FLAC
Replies: 9
Views: 1527

Re: Importing a 24-bit FLAC

ffmpeg support was first introduced with Audacity 1.3.6 (hence the reason for a few glitches with it).
You will find the release notes here: http://audacityteam.org/download/features-1.3-a
by steve
Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:52 pm
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: Removing transients
Replies: 3
Views: 1156

Re: Removing transients

trumphodge wrote:What filter quality setting should be used--I kept it at default.
Yes, it should be at the default.
The number of times that it would be better to set it to something else is probably never.
by steve
Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:40 am
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: Binaural Recording
Replies: 15
Views: 5893

Re: Binaural Recording

I heard some remarkably good binaural recordings made with the aid of a couple of panasonic WM61A electret microphone capsules stuck onto the ear pieces of a pair of glasses, then recorded with a portable DAT machine. These capsules, as with other electret capsules, require low voltage phantom power...
by steve
Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:26 am
Forum: Recording Equipment
Topic: Old panasonic IC digital voice recorder
Replies: 5
Views: 1382

Re: Old panasonic IC digital voice recorder

I have an old panasonic IC digital voice recorder, that I would like to get to work through a TOS optical connection, I have brought a coax to optical convertor, and this has not worked, does anybody know why? You need to narrow this down. Are you able to get the coax to optical converter to work w...
by steve
Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:20 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: digital effects removal??
Replies: 4
Views: 347

Re: digital effects removal??

He's pulling your leg, there is no "audacity synth remover plug in". There have been a couple of reports of people on YouTube doing amazing things with film sound tracks, including removing reverb and sound effects, removing the music and effects to just leave the dialogue, and other wondr...