Audacity Forum

I raised my voice and even shout to achieve the effects needed sometimes Don't raise your voice or shout. The grownups have vocal tricks where they change the stress in their voices to simulate shouting and so on. One of the recent posters wanted to know the best way to speak a gunshot blast in her...

... far better and more harmonious than it did when we sat down. I watched him do it and I can't figure out how he did it. Right then. I was able to help a tiny bit. I applied Effect > Low Pass Filter with the attached settings to the two instances of harsh crashing during the voice. The slight muting ...

Hi there! I'm trying to start out recording cover vocals, I've got all my equipment, I just have 1 main problem: How do I ensure the whole vocal piece is approximately the same volume? I raised my voice and even shout to achieve the effects needed sometimes but this makes the vocal track feel imbala...

... her to do it again but I just don't think my listeners would sit through 30-40 minutes of this. Hoping there's an effect(s) in Audacity that might help? Keep in mind I'm a creative type, not a technical type so I'll appreciate links to any directions on how to use phasing or compression or noise ...

... the cable appears to work at least to some extent. I'm stopping here. I've spoken to tech support at both Studio Projects, and Tascam. Both very helpful and not surprisingly agreed on the set up. But I got no new information. No surprise here, but both seemed to think that the problem lay with ...

... Hard Disk Drive or Solid State Drive, which will be faster? You can always use a RAM drive for your Audacity temporary or data folder which might help somewhat, but remember that your data is gone if the computer crashes. is there a 64 bit version of audacity? No, 32-bit only on Windows. Gale

If the data is important, rescue data first.

Think about repair later...

I see repair failing a bit too often. And when it fails, your data is usually gone forever. If a crash occurs and eats file tables, I'd suspect something wrong with the harddisk.

Thanks for the responses! I'll try TestDisk.

Hey guys,i did try the program but looks like it kinda old or w/e cos it give me an erron when am try to use it.I dont care if i will need to pay some $$ per month for a softwere but i really try to find a tool to do the job but i cant found any info,please help!

Cyrano's suggestion of using a Linux live CD is a good one for quick rescue of files. I'm not sure if it contains Microsoft chkdsk or similar to repair the file system. Set your boot order to boot first from CD. Or you can insert your Windows 8.1 DVD. After loading its files, if it can see your Wind...