Audacity Forum

In v. 1.3.4, you can select the "normalise to:" value. In v. 1.2.6, The "Normalise" effect is fixed at -3dB (not -0.3). However, you can use "Amplify" instead of "Normalise". When you select "Amplify", it will automatically set the amplification amou...

A high quality microphone will produce a much livelier and richer sound than a cheap microphone. Also, why without chorus or reverb? The main use of these effects is achieve exactly what you are asking for - These effects should generally be used with a bit of subtlety, it's easy to overdo it and ma...

Select the track and use "Effcts -> Amplify"
(make sure that the "Allow Clipping" box is NOT selected)

Some people suggested it's because there's no way to equalize the sound in Audacity and that the bass sounds can soudn distorted. You CAN equalize the sound in Audacity - use "Effects -> Equalisation" It's correct that excessive bass can sometimes cause distortion on mp3's, and little com...

For anyone that has a Cambridge Audio amplifier, they make a phono pre-amp as an optional extra which is good enough for hi-fi http://www.froogle.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=CAMB-PM01 I also noticed this on the same web site - I've not used this one, but I don't think th...

No problem Paladin - have fun

If anyone reads this and can tell me which parameters need altering on the 1.3 releases of Audacity I would appreciate a note. Did you try increasing the audio buffers? BTW, you can have both the stable version and the beta version installed as long as they are in different directories. (but only r...

I've just had a quick look on Google for a tutorial for you, but not found much. You could have a look at the "Looping" section in this article - The article is about using some other software, but the general points about choosing loop positions will hopefully give you some ideas. http://...

Sorry, but i don't see an "End" box Yes you do - here: the "status window"down at the bottom shows selection start , end , and duration , BTW v.1.2.4 is an old version, you should update to v.1.2.6 and/or 1.3.4 (you can have both on your machine at the same time as long as they ...

I look forward to hearing how you get on