Audacity Forum

The basic problem is - Normalization works on peaks but the perception of loudness works on the average volume (and the frequency content). The general procedure would be: 1. Normalize everything. This gives you a starting point . 2. Choose the quietest sounding track as your reference. 3. Adjust th...

I´ve tried everything below. The sound comes perfectly to the mixer and we hear it loud in our headphones in the same way we hear each other. But we can´t get the sound from the mobile to reach audacity in my mac. All the mices gets through but not this sound. It worked before thats why its so frust...

... in Audacity, do the green sound meters ever go all the way up? That's pure overload damage and you can fix that before you export. See if those help. There's other places to get this problem. Koz

Hi, I'm working on my first video program consisting of a dozen or so sections for which I'm using Audacity as my audio editor. Results produced different sound files with different loudnesses and show my workflow to be flawed or incomplete. Would anyone be so kind to critique? My Recent Audio Workf...

... may be confusing Audacity with some other program. I don't recall a graph like that in any version of Audacity. However, we may still be able to help ;) The normal "waveform" view of an audio track shows the "amplitude" of the waveform. "Amplitude" is the vertical ...

Hello everybody, I'm using windows 8.1 and audacity version 2.0.5. I have an Alesis DM6 Electronic Drum Set, 1/8" audio cables connected to my computer for recording. I've been recording multiple drum tracks and merging them together, then I import the song MP3 and synchronize the song with the...

Hello, I am using Audacity 2.0.5 on Windows 8, and I was hoping for some help/ A few years ago, using an older version of Audacity, I could make it give me a line chart of volume and pitch for a selection of audio. I've attached the image of what that chart ...

Thank you so much, Koz.
Okay, I guess I will have to record again, then. I'm glad I learned this now - before it having progressed too much.

Again, thank you!
- Tolle

... icon may have accessibility issues, and is not very discoverable unless we are making a lot of use of right click menus (though a tool-tip could help). Accessibility is probably not a big issue in this particular case as envelopes are not accessible anyway, but is a big issue if we start using ...

... a raw, classic turntable, then the model number changes. Behringer makes a UFO202 which has a built-in phono-preamplifier, ground connection to help with hum and can switch to Stereo Line-In as well. http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/UFO202 Older Macs had a Headphone-Out and a Stereo line-In ...