Audacity Forum

With something that old, check that it's electrically safe and that there are no high voltages (AC or DC) on the output (or if in doubt, get a professional to check it out for you). If it uses valves, there will be very high (potentially lethal) voltages inside - so take care. If your computer has a...

Windows XP Audacity ® 1.3.4-beta (Unicode) 2 stereo track - 44.1kHz 16 bit Select the first stereo track. Click on "Tracks->Stereo to Mono" The first track converts to mono and the second track disappears :shock: Press play Audacity crashes. Do the same, but select the second track instead...

... Then I heard a woman on it, but the "sssss" were very strong. So what would I need to buy to help that? I guess you mean "sibilance". Different microphones will pick this up to a greater or lesser degree. I've not noticed that this is particularly a problem with the Zoom H2 ...

alatham wrote:And how.

A link in the header (near the "Search" box) ?

Personally I think a FAQ board on this forum (Read Only apart from forum moderators) would be a good idea to cope with the questions that keep coming up on the forum.

Higher sampling rate actually gives you greater frequency range, not resolution. Higher bit-rates give you greater frequency range because the resolution in the time domain (number of samples per unit time) is greater. Any processes that involve shifting samples time-wise (for example pitch shiftin...

The noise floor on the Zoom H2 is very low. It can operate as a USB microphone, or as a stand-alone recorder. It can also record in mono, stereo or 4 channel surround. At around £125 GBP I'd highly recommend it - don't drop it though, it's only made of plastic (I've dropped mine once from a height o...

When I try to record, the current tracking bar just bounces at the beginning but doesn't move forward I've not been able to reproduce this fault, however, one thing that comes to mind is that if a region is selected, then only that region will record. If it's anything to do with that, try clicking ...

I don't think it's possible that the act of plugging in analog headphones would cause this sort of behavior. Your computer is completely unaware of whether or not analog headphones are plugged in. Not so with some Realtek drivers - some "auto-detect" what you have plugged into the soundca...

Open or insert the original recording, then record your "voice over" as a separate track (within the same project). You can also use the "Auto Duck..." effect to lower the volume of the original track while you are speaking. Your voice and the original voice will not sound the sa...

Don't know if this will help you, but I was having problems with Audacity 1.3.4 on Xubuntu, so I used the latest available version of wxGTK (2.8.?) and it's fine now.