Audacity Forum

... and ambience of the hall are burned in. This is exactly the same problem that people have when they come back from a rock concert. "Can you help me clean up...." We can help a little with the bass notes. Effect > Equalization: Graphic EQ. That will give you sliders for each of the major ...

thanks for the help guys, I didn't think that storing files on portable devices wasn't a good idea but now you mention it it makes sense, thanks.

I haven't had a chance to look more into this but will do one evening this week and feed back, thanks!

Producing a song and just need some help with some raw vocals. My singer did some vocal recordings in mix track and they seem a bit flat. Need some treble,is there an onboard eq in audacity? Im a guitarist so i dont know much about audacity ...

... file that serves as a temporary AUP file in case Audacity crashes. The next 2.1.1 version of Audacity will have an improvement for this that might help. Meantime if you open Edit > Preferences... and in the "Quality" section, change "Default Sample Format" to "16-bit", ...

... with a suggestion. When I was typing my response, I saved it as a draft, and now I can find neither my first post nor my draft. I asking for help, but I may be beyond help. Sorry Gale Drafts are saved in your User Control Panel (under the "Overview" tab). You can access the User ...

Post a raw sample. Straight out of the microphone. No patching, level adjusting, effects, filters, noise-removal, etc. Don't use the volume sliders on the left of the track. Don't help it in any way.

Which Audacity? Be accurate.

Koz

Okay I think I got it figured out. Thanks for the help. Great forum: got my questions answered quickly and helped a lot!

... (2.1.0 or higher) The name has changed to "Vocal Reduction and Isolation", thus it will appear at the end of the effect list. The Help page can be found at: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/vocal_reduction_and_isolation.html vocalrediso.ny I would expect it to produce the same ...

... Gain setting for when the vocal is going, which of course means I had double the number of instrumental tracks. This is going to be a very big help. Thanks so much for a great tip. Russ

Yes I think some sort of splitter cable would be the best option. I rarely have a need to record vocals and piano simultaneously anyway so it's a minor grievance. In the instances that I do I'll try adding some stereo effects in post as Trebor kindly suggested.

Thanks again for the help. Aaron.