Audacity Forum

It definitely sounds like either a problem with sound card drivers, or a problem with the actual sound card. Trying Windows Sound Recorder is a great idea, it's in the Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Entertainment menu. As far as I know it comes with all versions of Windows (though I'm not certa...

daniel,

No, that's probably not it.

I wonder if Audacity 1.2.x doesn't use that config file. Maybe one of the developers can answer that for us.

In any case, I just renamed that config file so Audacity can't find it and Audacity started up just fine (and made a new config file).

The three effects that spring to mind are Pitch Shift (which Audacity calls Change Pitch), Vocoder, and Ring Modulator. Audacity doesn't offer the last two effects (which are likely to be much more useful than Pitch Shift). Here's a free Software Vocoder that might be useful (I haven't used it, I us...

Yes, open the audacity project, press [ctrl]+a (to highlight everything), and then click Effects -> Normalize and use whatever settings you want (I recommend leaving "remove DC offset" turned ON). Each track will be normalized individually and all will peak at the same level. Since loudnes...

I recommend reading this wikipedia page on spectrograms . Most Audacity users will probably benefit from the ability to find pops and clicks visually as described in this thread: http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5584#p5584 If you don't have any examples, you can generate some silence in...

I'm running vista if that helps It helps us, but it certainly doesn't help you. The state of audio drivers for Vista is abysmal. This wiki page has info on how to set up for Vista users. The gist of it is that you need to set Audacity to use the Microsoft Sound Mapper input and then set the right i...

Or the noise floor on "The Diamond Sea" from Washing Machine by Sonic Youth during the first second or so. One of the effects on the guitars can be heard right away before they even start playing. But there's also a very clear hissing static until the band actually starts playing (and then...

One thing I forgot to mention is that the Program DataAudacity folder is probably hidden, so you have to make sure you specify to search in hidden files and folders when you do a Windows Search (I think it's under the "advanced" options). So you might try doing that real quick. If you're s...

For now, I'm assuming that audacity can't export mono files. Am I right? No, Audacity can export mono files just fine. In fact, Audacity 1.3.x has no restrictions on the number of channels a wav file can be (except whatever restrictions wav files have by design). It can also export mono mp3 files w...

Where did you get this mp3 file from? No, I don't care if you downloaded it from somewhere, I'm just curious. Generally clicking at the beginning of a track is caused by bad recording equipment, usually resulting in a DC offset. Highlight the whole signal and click Effects -> Normalize, then check t...