Audacity Forum

The USB TT page in the manual comes from this set of tutorials that you should find useful: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tuto ... iscs_to_CD

WC

Ok,the signal from the headphone output of your cassette player is almost certainly far too hot for the mic imput on your laptop (Mics deliver a very low level signal indeed). You will probably need an external soundcard to handle the level you are dealing with. A coupleof suggestions are the Behrin...

Huck, how have you got your tapedeck connected to your computer: 1) the outputs from the deck, 2) the input on the computer? Are you using a laptop or a full desktop PC? What are your Audacity Preferences settings - I would suggest using the default 44100Hz for the project rate and 32-bit floating f...

Start off with a read and work-through of this set of tutorials from the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tutorial_-_Copying_tapes,_LPs_or_minidiscs_to_CD If it's bad when you play it back in Audacity it will remain bad when you burn it to CD - so you need to fix whatever is wrong. If your...

Playback of what: the Audacity project, a WAV file you have exported or an MP3 file you have exported etc.?


WC

Not in 1.2 but in 1.3.x there is a new Append Record function.

In 1.2 you would need to use the Pause function while recording and then un-Pause to start recording again.

WC

For a start you will probably find it easier if you zoom out on the waveform so more of the waveform is displayed on the screen.

WC

... I think most audio editors have a "normalize" function with an option to maintain left-right balance. Audacity happens to always normalize independently. After much lobbying earlier this year, this was finally changed for 1.3.14 (currenlty only Alpha not Beta release yet). In 1.3.14 t...

No, I don't remember the original question, either. ROFLMAO - a thread full of interest, nonetheless :D Actually, following some deeper interweb review research, I went ahead and ordered the Arcam irDock, it arrived this morning and is already plumbed into the back of my QUAD 33 control unit and de...

billw58 wrote:"Smooth a group of samples by holding down ALT, which changes the pointer symbol to a brush. Then click halfway along the group to progressively smooth out the samples. "

Well you learn something new every day -this is me writing that tip down...

WC