Audacity Forum

The human ear is the best tool for this, and as long as you are not trying to match hundreds or thousands of tracks, it's not too hard... If you do it by-ear, I recommend normalizing all of the tracks 1st. (Use the Normalize effect, or the Amplify effect to set the peaks of all of your files to 0dB....

"You can't un-fry an egg or un-bake a cake, and you can't un-mix a song." [/b] That's why pros use multi-track recording ... By recording each instrument and voice (or sometimes a group of voices) isolated on a separate track, each part can be adjusted, processed, and edited separately, or re-recor...

Audacity to convert it to WAVE, Audacity doesn't handle MIDI, so Audacity can't "convert" it. But, you can plug the audio -output from your keyboard into your soundcard and digitally record the sound . As you may know, MIDI files are not sound files. MIDI files are the notes, timing, and instructio...

Recording vinyl produces a band of background noise, seen in the space between bands. This band measures about .1 on the left hand scale. Of course there is noise, it's analog vinyl! Did you expect digital quality? ;) What does it sound like? A signal level of 0.1 seems unusually "loud". Are you he...

Shoebox??? Something like this or this ? Portable recorders like this (I'm shocked that they still make these!) were usually mono, so you might only get sound in one ear with normal "modern" stereo headphones. But, you should be getting the sound from both channels (mixed in to one). Portable stereo...

I agree... It's usually best to do it manually ( Effect -> Amplify ), because nothing is as good as the human ear for judging the human perception of loudness. There are a couple of tricks that will make it easier... - First, use the Amplify to set the "New Peak Amplitude" to 0dB for all of the indi...

I'm a little confused by your dB scale... On the "digital side" 0dBFS (zero decibels full-scale) is the "maximum" beyond which digital-to-analog converters , analog-to-digital converts, and integer file formats (distort). That means you normally don't see positive dB numbers... Only negative numbers...

Since the headphones or speakers used in playback may significantly affect the evaluation Of course... But the idea is to compare the relative sound of one mic to the others. It's probably best if you choose one or two of the best (or more expensive mics) as the reference and compare the others to ...

It can also be related to your microphone and the sound level you are recording... i.e. The stronger your signal, the greater your signal-to-noise ratio. The signal tends to drown-out the noise, and you can set the playback-volume (or mix level) lower, which lowers the signal and noise together. (Or...

I'm recording them as 32 bit float... FYI - You can't really "capture" or record 32-bit data... There are no 32-bit or floating-point ADCs (analog to digital converters). There's no advantage in asking your driver to generate a floating-point file. You just end-up with a bigger file. If your soundc...