Audacity Forum

If you are humming a tune (more than one note) then getting the "average frequency" will not help. You can use "Plot Spectrum" (in the "Analyze" menu) to see the frequencies that are contained in the currently selected audio. If you select just ...

Do you have another mic that you could try plugged into th iRig, just for testing purposes. The near total absence of frequencies below 100 Hz indicates that either a substantial amount of filtering is taking place, or something is set up wrong, or something is broken. Whatever the cause, your "...

The Limiter effect was added to Audacity relatively recently. Which version of Audacity do you have (look in "Help > About Audacity").

... the effects. I don't know what could be the reason. And I think that Limiter is one of the standard effects in each GNU/Linux Audacity build. Any help would be welcome.

Just a note, it's not USB, the iRig plugs into the headphone socket on the MacMini, yes, the headphone socket. The mini acts something like an iPhone in that it takes a earphone/mic combination in the socket. iRig uses that. The Line In socket requires a driven mic and that means having a powered mi...

... It gave me a link to down load a free version. So i did, even though I already had it. Then it said "Could not open MP3 Encodin Library. help!!

1.2.6 is years obsolete. See the pink panel at the top.

If this was a WAV or AIFF file you could try File > Import > Raw Audio... . I can't see Audacity has any other chance. If the encryption prevents the file being opened then Import Raw Audio won't help.


Gale

Basically i use a mixer/controller and although my VU meters have 0Db, +6dB etc i want something like white noise or pink noise so that i can see if the values on the controller are true. So if i play an mp3 or Wav file known to be 0dB it will help set my reference point

... we do not know how that version might have been modified. Then install 2.1.1 from http://audacityteam.org/download/windows . Please see this help page for help with drivers: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Windows_10_OS . Gale

... out below but of recent I've been hitting a few problems which have caused me some major issues. Today it happened again, so I hope someone can help fix it. (Note that this is not the first time this has happened). Today I recorded a video which was around 30 minutes long. 2 footage sources ...