Audacity Forum

... a high-inertia acoustic plate that actually increases the volume of the recording. I don't think buying an external microphone is going to help. The 33-3013 is not a particularly crisp performer and you may introduce other problems by doing that. The ME12 is a noise cancelling, directional ...

... track. I have no problem moving the clip back into its original track on Windows 7, as long as I can see one of the boundary snap guides. It may help to hold CTRL when vertical dragging, which prevents the clip moving laterally. I also notice that the visual (and thus reactive) sizes and cursor ...

Would a powered usb hub help in any way? Some youtuber recommended that. That's solving the wrong problem. Yeti microphones are subject to data signals seeping into the sound. I call it The Yeti Curse or Frying Mosquitoes. Listen to ...

... it. I just thought it sounded way low compared to reviews on youtube, I am not close to that kind of quality on my mic. Would a powered usb hub help in any way? Some youtuber recommended that. teamspeak, and everything is normal. Did you hit the goal in your postings? Are you reading for audiobooks? ...

... out causing some real problems with track syncing later after editing since things then need to get moved around to fit properly. Thanks for any help, Ken

The reason I'm going on about this is to get original recordings up to snuff. It can be nearly impossible to "rescue" bad recordings in post-production.

The kiss of death is a forum posting that uses the words: "help me clean up."

Koz

... were the Audacity recording meters bouncing when you recorded? 4:The computer is a desktop, right? 5:Which Audacity? Koz Thank you for trying to help me. 1 & 3: I get blue bouncy waves when recording but very tiny. The higest peaks are from 0,10 to -0,10 before amplyfi. After amplyfi with ...

... are the high frequencies, and boosting the frequencies above about 4,000Hz will bring-up the "T" and "S" sounds which can help with intelligibility. But, boosting these frequencies will also bring-up the background hiss and any artifacts left-over from noise reduction. ...

... boxes are checked. The only other option in the recording device tab is the same external microphone mentioned earlier. Can someone please help me get my headphones working properly with Audacity? Thank you

It's better. Ugh! This is the worst recording EVER. Could you tell me the steps you took to clean it up? The file was originally an MP4. I can try to export as a WAV. Do you think that might help?

Marcie