Audacity Forum

... Sometimes, if the peaks that correspond to drum hits are very high compared with the rest of the sound, dynamic compression and/or limiting can help a little to bring out other sounds. I doubt that it will help, but you could try the Compressor effect with settings similar to this (Normalize ...

So, I'm a novice when it comes to using Audacity and have been more or less 'trial and error-ing' my way through using it. Getting to the point, I have an audio rip of a live concert DVD (concert in question is the Seattle '89 Metallica show) and I am really enjoying it, but me being the audiophile ...

Hi everyone!Wanted to see if anyone could help me try and find my lost audio recording. I was recording a large file using the latest version of Audacity on my Macbook Pro iOS Mountain Lion when the program crashed after I stopped the recording. ...

It probably is just as easy to manually edit such a small file.

Thanks again for all your help.

Hi everyone!Wanted to see if anyone could help me try and find my lost audio recording. I was recording a large file using the latest version of Audacity on my Macbook Pro iOS Mountain Lion when the program crashed after I stopped the recording. ...

... you right-click over them > Properties, are they read-only? In the pink header we ask for the full three-section version number of Audacity from Help > About Audacity - what do you see there? Many people who say they are running the "latest version" are not doing so. If you need it, ...

Just downloaded Audacity for the first time on my MacBook Pro laptop and want to convert from stand alone turntable. Unsure what serves as "stereo line-in jack" on the laptap, or if I need to use the mic jack, or purchase a USB interface for stereo input. Help?

... Once this starts, it's unusual for it to go back to normal for more than a few seconds or minute at most. Even restarting Audacity doesn't help. Where do I start looking for the cause? It's not recording level and clipping (but it does sometimes sound like clipping). The turntable and phono ...

Found a solution that may help others. I'm currently using the "headphones out" on my laptop to my 2.1 "audio in". Yeah, I know it's not recommended, but it works very well after fiddling with levels to avoid clipping. ...

... still occur after Mix and Render? Does selecting from the start of the offset clips to time zero then Generate > Silence before you Mix and Render help? Do the tracks say 16-bit or 32-bit? If 32-bit, does the problem go away when you export? This assumes in the Audacity Quality Preferences that ...