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by waxcylinder
Mon Mar 02, 2015 6:18 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Recoving interviews from .au files
Replies: 2
Views: 249

Re: Recoving interviews from .au files

Tip for the future: Once you have completed the recording, export that audio as a WAV file as a safety copy.

Tip2: do it in chunks of less than 15 hours (that's a lot for Audacity to chew on)

WC
by waxcylinder
Mon Mar 02, 2015 3:40 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: adjusting input volume
Replies: 2
Views: 717

Re: adjusting input volume

DVDdoug is correct that you can't alter the level of the recorded signal when using WASAPI loopback - you need to use the sound-supplying app to control the signal level.

WC
by waxcylinder
Mon Mar 02, 2015 1:02 pm
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Wanted: mastering chain for meeting ACX Guidelines
Replies: 64
Views: 9631

Re: Wanted: mastering chain for meeting ACX Guidelines

kozikowski wrote:High on everybody's wish list is the ability to make a WAV and cancel out all previous MP3 damage.
Maybe you could have one of those ready for the start of next month Koz ... 8-)
by waxcylinder
Sat Feb 28, 2015 10:48 am
Forum: Feature Request Archive
Topic: Tools settings
Replies: 5
Views: 1113

Re: Tools settings

Let me ponder this ... But if we did this then the existing proposal for creating a zoom toolbar and adding commands would be redundant. I can see the benefit of your proposal here if we were to add more than the one or two extra zoom command buttons to the toolbar. Would you propose leaving the sin...
by waxcylinder
Sat Feb 28, 2015 12:05 am
Forum: Feature Request Archive
Topic: Tools settings
Replies: 5
Views: 1113

Re: Tools settings

-1 on the basis of the extra clicks :(

See also: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Propo ... om_Toolbar

Peter
by waxcylinder
Fri Feb 27, 2015 9:59 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Fixing clicking in existing recording
Replies: 9
Views: 1068

Re: Fixing clicking in existing recording

What were the exact settings you used, if you don't mind my asking? *DeClick = 30 (default is 50) *Pitch Protection = "on" (default is "off") though leave this "off" for brass recordings *Reverse = "on" (there is no processing penalty for this and it helps on...
by waxcylinder
Thu Feb 26, 2015 1:42 pm
Forum: Feature Request Archive
Topic: Timer Record automatic saving in Audacity 2.1.0
Replies: 33
Views: 3766

Re: Timer Record automatic saving in Audacity 2.1.0

At this point I think we would need to make some design decisions. Does the user want to make unattended recording OR does the user want hands-on audio editing. Well this particular piece of functionality is Vaughan's baby (IIRC he was commissioned to write it) - and he always intended into be a ha...
by waxcylinder
Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:24 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Crackling Sound When Recording (No evidence of clipping)
Replies: 11
Views: 1262

Re: Crackling Sound When Recording (No evidence of clipping)

So I just tried ClickRepair on the sample posted in this thread - worked well there too:
SOUND CLIP CRACKLING-cr.wav
(549.5 KiB) Downloaded 19 times
See this sticky thread on ClickRepair: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1994

WC
by waxcylinder
Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:18 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Crackling Sound When Recording (No evidence of clipping)
Replies: 11
Views: 1262

Re: Crackling Sound When Recording (No evidence of clipping)

steve wrote:Interestingly, the damage is rather similar to the damage that this user was getting: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 69#p268269
I just ran the audio sample in that other thread through Brian Davies' ClickRepair and it fixed it up pretty well ...

WC