Audacity Forum

Thanks for the update WC. I've used some ART stuff before an been pleased with price/quality. The RCA terminals are not gold-plated - IIRC the Behringer's are - this is a corner that ART should not have cut really Only relevant if you have gold plated plugs on your leads. Gold > Gold (best) Chrome >...

kozikowski wrote:I'm going to have to lie down for a while.

Lol - I guess did give rather a lot of detail
put simply:
Create a stereo track and generate a tone in it, then split the track and shift one channel along a bit.
(is that better? )

The mp3 encoding settings in Audacity are optimised for music rather than high ratio speech. I recommend that you download LameDrop (which is free and very easy to use). Right click on LameDrop and select "Encoding options", then select Quality=0 and "convert to mono". If the sou...

Yes you unzip it and put it in the Audacity Plug-ins folder. It will then appear in the list of effects in Audacity. To use it you must first make sure that there is some "headroom" - When you fix the clipped audio, the flat tops to the waveform (the clipping distortion) will be raised in ...

I'd not actually noticed that behaviour, but you are correct. In Audacity 1.3.4 if you use "split cut" or "split delete" instead, then you do not get the control points added, but note that these edits are slightly different from the normal "split" or "delete"...

There are three options that come to mind:

1) Use the Equaliser" effect to define your required frequency response.
2) Duplicate the track, apply the 6dB/Octave to one of them, amplify both tracks by 6dB then mix the two together.
3) Read the Nyquist manual.

There is a plug-in called "ClipFix" that may help
http://www.gaclrecords.org.uk/clipfix.zip

Two excellent free CD rippers (that support ripping to WAV)
CDex http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
Exact Audio Copy (EAC) - can be very slow (with poor CD's), but with a good CD it will give perfect copies. http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

stevethefiddle wrote:Import the mp3 back into Audacity and see if it plays.

Does it?

You may have "Capture" disabled in the ALSA mixer (I use QAmix as a graphical alsa mixer for my SBLive soundcard).