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by waxcylinder
Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:01 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Anomaly in W7 recording baseline?
Replies: 6
Views: 1996

Re: Anomaly in W7 recording baseline?

To be fair, the bug does not seem to apply in "normal audio" cases... Yes but it's still good practice to do the DC removal early and the amplification late on in the editing process, so you should be using Normalize twice anyway. It was only testing that dug that bug out for me (I someti...
by waxcylinder
Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:48 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Editing
Replies: 14
Views: 2628

Re: Editing

steve wrote:The language used in Audacity documentation is Americanised English...
Steve, surely you mean "Americanized" spelt with a zee 8-)

Peter
by waxcylinder
Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:35 pm
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: How to face with this challange?!
Replies: 15
Views: 6005

Re: How to face with this challange?!

I'm with Koz on this one - Brian Davies' ClickRepair is one of the "best in class" it's results are just a little shy of magical - well worth the forty bucks if you have a lot of vinyl to process. See this sticky thread: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1994 I used to...
by waxcylinder
Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:14 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Anomaly in W7 recording baseline?
Replies: 6
Views: 1996

Re: Anomaly in W7 recording baseline?

...the centerline for the blue waveform is slightly below the black horizontal line that starts at 0.0 and extends to the right. This is called "DC-offset" und is usually caused by using a minor-quality soundcard for recording. Is there a way to fix this? Select the entire audio track and...
by waxcylinder
Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:01 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: save folder question
Replies: 19
Views: 7085

Re: save folder question

ragnar.jensen wrote: ...There's plenty more pitfalls, making the registry hack method less appealing than it appeared yesterday. I wouldn't recommend it.
I never find it "appealing" to hack the registry ...

"Stay away from the dark side Luke"

WC
by waxcylinder
Wed Apr 18, 2012 5:46 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: No sound when recording
Replies: 14
Views: 3456

Re: No sound when recording

or just reset the output device to be your on-board souncard with the Device Toolbar - see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Device_Toolbar

WC
by waxcylinder
Wed Apr 18, 2012 5:35 pm
Forum: Audacity 2.x Feedback and Reviews
Topic: Saving to MP3 adds empty space to the beginning
Replies: 2
Views: 1949

Re: Saving to MP3 adds empty space to the beginning

veikkohy wrote: I wonder if this is a known bug with Audacity 2 and LAME 3.99.3, or could it be my system...
No, it's a known "feature" of MP3s to pad a little silenceat the beginning,

WC
by waxcylinder
Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:45 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Track names don't show after saving
Replies: 5
Views: 1153

Re: Track names don't show after saving

What you're looking at is the Audacity Project - see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Projects In the Export Multiple you should have exported a set of .WAV files defined by the label positions - the export dialog will have let you specify where these were to be exported to (and you can ...
by waxcylinder
Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:18 pm
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: Audacity Speeding Up my Cassettes!
Replies: 5
Views: 4013

Re: Audacity Speeding Up my Cassettes!

I'm puzzled becauuse I record from my Nakamichi tape deck and my TT/pre-amp though an external USB soundcard wih Audacity set to have "Software Playthrough" on so that I can monitor the recording. This produces no speeding up, no chipmunks, just plain regular playback. The FAQ is by its na...