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by whomper
Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:02 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Tempo problems
Replies: 2
Views: 317

Re: Tempo problems

too much coffee???

do you really mean faster or do you mean a time offset aka latency
by whomper
Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:01 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: THIS LADY NEEDS HELP i wanna record!
Replies: 2
Views: 362

Re: THIS LADY NEEDS HELP i wanna record!

need more details
by whomper
Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:00 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: external Sound Card
Replies: 2
Views: 375

Re: external Sound Card

is this really external?
does it connect via usb?
what drivers are you using ??
may not be supported by audacity.
did you select usb for your i/o device?

really need complete details to offer better suggestions.
by whomper
Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:52 pm
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: Guitar solos Sound awful - hhhhelp!
Replies: 14
Views: 2751

Re: Guitar solos Sound awful - hhhhelp!

Richardalexander wrote:Thanks. I have since found that compression helps a lot. But how do I find the 'eq frequency' you mention?
look at teh spectrum of both tracks
and eyeball what sort of eq is needed to make them similar
by whomper
Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:42 pm
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: Ringing in Conversion from Wav to MP3
Replies: 13
Views: 2310

Re: Ringing in Conversion from Wav to MP3

set the H2 to record at the lowest mp3 rate you can tolerate If they do that they won't have the oppertunity to make a high quality presentation, say on CD, or via the internet when bandwidth improves. true but that was not what they want to do with it as i read their posting else they should recor...
by whomper
Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:39 pm
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: Ringing in Conversion from Wav to MP3
Replies: 13
Views: 2310

Re: Ringing in Conversion from Wav to MP3

If you let the H2 compress the work, then you can't bring it into Audacity for further processing and editing. Audacity will not edit MP3 tracks. It imports them, converts them to high quality format (with no increase in show quality) and then edits them. If you want an MP3 later, Audacity has to e...
by whomper
Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:34 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: IPod recordings cannot be imported to Audacity
Replies: 5
Views: 611

Re: IPod recordings cannot be imported to Audacity

m4a is an apple specific format
many (most?) players do NOT play m4as
eg winamp on pcs will not play m4as
nor any other device taht i own

try converting it to mp3 format
by whomper
Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:54 am
Forum: Maintaining / Improving this Forum
Topic: spam problems
Replies: 1
Views: 1021

spam problems

board needs an automatic check for multiple same titles and automatically delete the spam twice this week over 10 of the same spam messages have been posted by the same person. most have had links to hard core xxxx sites and are not related to audacity. additionally a quick spam delete click icon on...
by whomper
Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:48 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: no power to new usb turntable
Replies: 3
Views: 369

Re: no power to new usb turntable

... I can't get the power button to work on my IT turntable, even tho' it's plugged in to the outlet... how do you know that is *is* your device? are you sure there is power from the outlet ? is there a wall switch to activate the power where you plug in? is a circuit breaker tripped? is there a li...
by whomper
Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:46 am
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: Making a song sound old.
Replies: 3
Views: 22308

Re: Making a song sound old.

I would love to make some songs sound “old”. There's a particular kind of sound to songs from the 30s and such that I would love to capture—mostly the voide, like it comes out of a gramophone.. old recordings had limited bandwidth and may not have been equalised and some more harmonic distortion pl...