Audacity Forum

ION and Numark are basically the same company. The last time I looked at these Numark produced slighly better variants with heavier platters (the ION ones are normally plastc) and better arms and cartridges. I started out with an ION iTTUSB - the electronics worked well, but eventually I abandoned i...

2) Can the Draw tool help me clean up otherwise wonderful tracks? I've never used the Draw Tool, so I don't know it's best uses, or even really what it does. Can it help with click and pop smoothing? Can it help remove or clean up high volume levels inside of tracks (like when I got too close to th...

Cosby, I use TDK CD-R80 I buy them by the 100 on a spindle - cost in the UK c. £11-12 per 100 i.e 18-20 US cents per disc. On my third batch now and have had only two duds that turned into coaster/beermats. I selected TDK on the basis of using their SA tapes with excellent results in my Nakamichi ta...

This page from the wiki may help you: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... turntables

If that doesn't help - then please post back fo more assistance.

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When you plug in a USB device like this, Audacity hands over complete control over the sound services to the USB device. You may find that your USB TT has a gain control on it somewhere - for example the ION iTTUSB has a little knurled knob undeneath at the back.

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Why are you bothering to record a song from a CD? You would be much better off ripping the track from the CD with some good ripping software to produce a good WAV file (iTunes can do this for you and can be downloaded free from the Apple site - there's plenty of other ripping software available). Th...

you will need to re-rip those tracks as WAV files and then open them in Audacity.

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BBC7 broadcast digitally compressed audio (they do this to fit more channels into the digital spectrum) and the file you have downloaded will also be compressed - if you the compress this further to MP3 you will increase the compression and it will sound worse - you will get digital artifacts

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but on thinking about it further - I think it will operate when you export the mix (which is what you really need I think).

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krissserz wrote: but that means hooking my laptop and my tower together every time after sampling to transfer docuemnts.

or you could by one of those portable USB disks to transfer the files between the two ...

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