Audacity Forum

Hey you guys! I'm new to the forum. Me and my friend found a Sony ECM-MS907 mic after cleaning out his dad's office. He gave it to me, I was pretty psyched because I heard it was a pretty good mic, especially for free. So when I made it home I recorded immediately and was shocked to see the poor aud...

... are distorted, as if she is too close to the mic. It's not clipping. Is there a way to fix this, or at least tone it down? I've searched the help files and this forum, but found nothing. Might have something to do with not knowing what this distortion is called. (I'm a self-taught musician ...

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HELP i have to record an important conf call later tongiht... I am On WINDOWS 8 and using AUDACITY 2.0.8. I was recording streaming great until i changed the settings to microphone and who knows what happened after that. In ...

... - As Trebor says, Audacity's Spectrogram from the drop-down track menu will show the same thing as Wave Repair. (Analyze - Plot Spectrum won't help.) There is also a feature called "Play Around", which skips-over your selection. So if you can still hear the click, it's not in your ...

... just connected a USB microphone, turntable or cassette player, see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_playback.html#usb . If that does not help, please tell us what version of Windows you have. On Vista and later you can select the default playback device in Windows Sound . Gale

Can anyone help me please? I used to be able to use Audacity to record on my MacBookPro (OS X 10.6.8) from a Sony USB turntable PS-LX300 USB. But now the USB connection is no longer recognized: not in Audacity, not in System Preferences>Sound. ...

... I can locate the general area when zoomed out but the more I zoom in whilst playing back the quicker waveform flies by so that doesn't really help narrow it down. So then I slow down the playback speed but at slower speeds I can't hear the click Zooming in horizontally and vertically and manually ...

... turn Transport > Overdub off, or save the selection using Edit > Region Save then you can restore it using Edit > Region Restore. If that does not help, please read Steve's link and give us the necessary information about the problem. Gale

... to one channel having a greater RMS level than the other (even if the peak levels are the same). Applying a little gain to the quieter side can help to correct such an imbalance while simultaneously preventing the peak level from exceeding 0 dB, thus preventing clipping. The gain controls may ...