Audacity Forum

I'm presuming you're using OSX (rather than 9). If you're iMic is plugged in, and you open the System Preferences, and then the Sound page, go to the Input tab and the iMic should be listed there. Choose it and you can then record through it. The iMic has no software to install that I'm aware of so ...

I've just seen this post after not having read the forum for a few weeks. I use Audacity on Mac OSX and also use the Spitfish plugin. Instead of putting it in your Audacity plugins folder, try going to Home>Library>Audio>Plugins>VST and putting it there. That's where my VST plugins are, and they all...

I'm not running a laptop but a tower, so it has to be plugged in. I'll flip the plugs and see what happens. Also, I'll plug 'em into the same power strip. And clean the 1/8" plug. Even more exotic, if you are working with a entertainment wall, unplug the roof antenna or cable TV connection. Go ahead...

Here's an update. I tried running the de-essing filter on a whole song, and it seemed to help the problem a lot. I didn't notice much difference in the accompaniment music at all, so I ran the filter on the whole file (one side of an LP), and also on the other side of the LP. Then I burned a CD. It ...

Thank you stevethefiddle for your explanation. I'll play with it, saving a song with the filter applied to the whole song and without, and compare to see if there's much difference. In the couple of records that are having this problem I don't think there are too many cymbal sounds, but there is aco...

But meanwhile, back to my original question - should I use the de-essing filter on the whole file or song, or only on the selected sibilant bits (which is a lot more work, and a pain in the neck to do)?

thanks,
Jack

I played the LPs on a Sony PS-LX350H turntable with a Shure M97xE cartridge. The turntable ran through a preamp, which went directly into the computer via a Griffin iMic. I could hear the sibilance while recording. I have a few records that sound this way, and they are old ones, but I dont' ever rem...

I'm cleaning up some LPs I recorded in Audacity and some of them have some severe sibilance in the vocals, whenever there is an s, sh, t, or ch in a word. I've tried various de-essing filters, but the one that seems to work the best is the Spitfish de-esser (it's a free one). I'm nothing close to be...