Audacity Forum

Wikipedia can be misleading, and in this case I think it is misleading. Which is why I had a look at the source material. But a layman like myself can't really interpret all that information easily. Response to frequencies well above 20 kHz has been recorded when transmitted through bone conduction...

... 14.04 runs on 32-bit hardware. Are you 64-bit? I suppose it is most likely a bug in wxWidgets. Audacity recommends wxWidgets 3.0.2. If you look in Help > About Audacity..., Build Information tab, what is the wxWidgets version? Gale

... levels will be really high then low, just sounds awful! I've turned the recording levels right down but it's still as bad just not as loud, any help would be brilliant thanks See http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.html#enhancements for why the recording fades down. ...

let's say I want an end result of 16/44. Would I bet better off (quality wise) recording at say 24/32 bit depth - 96khz sample rate, and then downsampling to my desired 16/44. Would this result in a higher audio quality as opposed to recording natively at 16/44? You aren't recording at 24-bit unles...

Thank you DVDdoug and Cyrano for your replies. Hoping you can answer a similar question...let's say I want an end result of 16/44. Would I bet better off (quality wise) recording at say 24/32 bit depth - 96khz sample rate, and then downsampling to my desired 16/44. Would this result in a higher audi...

Just let the software handle everything. I'm guessing you had trouble with FLAC because you changed some setting in iZototope and ended up with a really unfortunate setting for downsampling and dithering. If you don't work with the audio, 16 bit 48 kHz is all you need for playback. If you count on d...

By default, Audacity works in floating-point internally and you should leave it that way. Soundcards (ADCs & DACs) are integer devices but the software will make the conversion. I'd like to end up with a 16/44 rip and a 24/96 rip. My sound card is capable of recording at 24/96. There's no harm i...

... levels will be really high then low, just sounds awful! I've turned the recording levels right down but it's still as bad just not as loud, any help would be brilliant thanks

I tried about a year ago to rip some records I bought, without much success. I think I'm going to give it another try with your help. Here goes... I'd like to end up with a 16/44 rip and a 24/96 rip. My sound card is capable of recording at 24/96. Would it be better to record in audacity ...

... it doesn't work at all, it's just not stable or reliable. If it works you win and if it doesn't, you lose, the recording is trash and we can't help you. In the case of Skype conferencing, Pamela makes some very good purpose-built recording software and there are some free services and products ...