Audacity Forum

Correct in 1.2 - yes the registry is used (and IIRC Gale Andrews once posted on the forum a utility that would do the registry clean for you - can't remember the thread though) But in 1.3.x and 1.4 (and I know you don't use 1.3 Koz) the developers have sensibly changed and created a similar preferen...

What you are talking about is called dynamic range. For many recordings (particularly classical say) the recording engineers deliberately create a wide dynamic range (i.e big spread between loud bits and soft bits). Lots of modern pop/rock records (and often remastered re-issues of older recordings)...

IIRC you should be able to use iTunes to do the WAV to AAC-MP4 concersion for you - off the top of my head I can't remeber how to do it. (A roundabout way would be to burn the WAVs to a music CD and then rip the CD into iTunes at your preferred AAC bitrate.) Alternatively you you could export MP3s f...

For recording and editing it is probably better to work at 32-bit. This will give you better audio quality to work with. The downside is the the Audacity projects will take up more space - this however is not a real problem as projects are normally only used as temporary work files - when you have f...

Koz, I hope you don't mind, but I have taken the liberty of posting part of your last reply here to the thread I started a while ago in the "Audio Processing" forum on "Any recommendations for compression quality settings" http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=25...

For the benefit of any others who follow this thread, I am posting here a quote from Koz (from a reply to a totally different thread on the 1.2 MAC forum). It sheds some interesting light on this issue ..... With degraded 60-year old ears, 30 year old technology is probably good enough for me - but ...

jrodsmith: copy oF my reply to your recent PM to me on this subject - copied here for the benefit of others. Firstly: if you have the USB from the ION plugged in then I would expect you to not get sound into the PC via the RCA plugs/amp. When a USB device is plugged in it takes over and becomes the...

The selections available on the input drop-down selector are entirely down to your soundcards and their associated device drivers. You can try updating the driver software - a search of t'interweb may show that later updated versions are available. - but this won't necessarily increase the available...

Or are you only getting a sigle mono track when you record? If so, then your problem is that when Audacity is fired up for the first time it is set to record in mono. You will need to go to Edit>Preferences>Audio I/O - and set Channels to 2 (Stereo) from the dropdown. Therefter Audacity will remeber...

You can connect your ION to your PC in one of two ways: 1) use the USB connector from the ION to plug into a USB port on your PC (in this case, ensure that the two RCA cables are not shorting together in any way). In this cas you will be using the soundcard that is in the ION to do the ADC (Analogue...