Audacity Forum

I have a pettersson elektronic usb microphone Which one? The u384 USB Ultrasound Microphone? If it's that one, you need to set the sampling rate to 384000. The easiest way to do that is to set that as the default sampling rate in Audacity Preferences https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/quality_pref...

Is there anything in this post that isn't covered in your topic here: viewtopic.php?f=48&t=110358
If not, then I can delete this topic to avoid confusion.

In fact the only thing on it for a desktop environment is tint2 and openbox, common apps, ALSA. If you don't have PulseAudio, be very careful to ensure that some other app isn't grabbing access to the sound card. Very few sound cards these days have hardware mixing, so multi-client support with pla...

Which version of Audacity are you using?

How exactly do you get these EQ settings into Audacity I replaced the default file but when I go back into audacity it is just the default settings still This is a very old topic (the first post was Fri Jun 18, 2010). The Audacity Equalization effect was retired after Audacity 2.3.2. The current Au...

auditor wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:12 pm

Now in 2020, I have been attempting to use Audacity on a 32G RAM, i7, top end mother-end and for this instance a same and stable, fully featured install of Arch.

Are you using Wayland?
Audacity does not fully support Wayland, so if you are, try logging out and then log back in to an Xorg session.

auditor wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:12 pm

Audacity's recording function is busted

If that were actually the case, it wouldn't work for anyone. What you actually mean is that it isn't working for you

Your post is quite long, so I'll be a few minutes going through it to see if I can make any helpful suggestions.

PS. It would be nice to have some editing ability, even if only 20-30 minutes to edit/correct out post or even delete. Unfortunately, because this is such a busy forum, we get a lot of spammers trying to sneak their way in. One of their favorite tricks is to send an innocuous post, then come back a...

It was off beat in audacity as well OK, so this probably doesn't have anything to do with Export Multiple. To record an overdub (your voice over a backing track) and have the two synchronized, it is necessary to set up "latency correction" before you start recording. This page of the manu...

chugalug wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:42 pm

Exiftool shows it as "Vendor : Xiph.Org libVorbis I 20120203 (Omnipresent)"

OK, that isn't "metadata". That is just telling you what encoder has been used.