Audacity Forum

This is a lot trickier than subtracting left & right to remove the "center" channel and I don't know if there's a plug-in for Audacity. There is a Winamp plug-in called DSP Centercut (it can also cut the "sides") and the new beta version of GoldWave has a similar effect called Stereo Center . (Winam...

I think that's normal. Some parts of human speech are different in males/females and some are the same, but everything gets pitch shifted. For example, you really don't want to lower the pitch of the "T" & "S' sounds. And, you can get artifacts (side effects) from the FFT processing. I think AutoTun...

My physical set up has been the same - Mic into Yamaha mixer, stereo out into Mic input on my laptop (this is how it has been for the whole time). :( You are feeding a line-level signal into a mic-level input. The line-level signal is somewhere around 100 times higher than a microphone signal and y...

I've got LAME on a Win7 (32-bit) machine, but I'm not sure what LAME version I have. (I'm on a different XP machine right now).

If you are running a 64-bit operating system, you may need the 64-bit LAME compile.

As far as I can tell, you are doing everything right. I tried to use the "phono" switch instead and I can get signal but it's clearly massively distorted as this is not the correct port to use. If I understand correctly - Switch to phono and everything "works" but is distorted... OK... That's exactl...

....sounds like im singing into a barrel. That can be caused by singing into the wrong side of a directional microphone, or by singing into the end of a side-address mic. Or perhaps, by an impedance mismatch. I don't know how to reset the defaults... Are you saying this setup was working before? Th...

I haven't tried it, but in theory dither could make the FLAC file bigger. Dither is noise, and noise (randomness) is hard to compress. It won't make a WAV file bigger. You can also choose the "level" of compression, which will affect file size. Level 8 will give you the smallest file, but compressio...

It's usually best to do this manually by ear. Most audio editing requires listening and human judgement... I haven't tried equal-loudness.ny , but that's the best approach if you want to do it automatically . If that doesn't work, WaveGain [/b] * and MP3Gain try to standardize the perceived loudness...

Are the high-pitched sounds are unrelated to the music? i.e. Do you get the same sound if the needle is in the groove or not? Can you hear the music through the computer speakers, so that it's playing OK but recording bad? (Windows has separate recording & playback mixers so you are not always recor...

I have tried to remove vocals from several different MP3's (ripped from CD's). Strange... it doesn't seem likely that ALL of these "several CDs" are mono. Vocal removal works by subtracting left from right, so the only way to get silence is if left & right are exactly the same. I wonder if your rip...