Audacity Forum

Set up your Snowball mic according to the instructions: http://www.bluemic.com/snowball/#/support/ Then open Audacity and you should see a USB option in the recording section of the Device Toolbar http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/device_toolbar.html Select the USB option as the recording device....

... rectangles seemed to flash when recording stopped and a red, thin downward facing vertical arrow appeared on the end of the input rectangles. Help!

I am using (first-time) Audacity version 2.0.2 on my desk-top which has Windows XP (also using a SnowBall , Blue, USB microphone to record voice). Need help with settings because can't get anything to record and can't hear anything on play-back. Thanks.

... Audacity "Vocal Remover" effect, use the "Remove frequency band" option with a lower frequency of at least 300 Hz. That will help to avoid losing the bass as a consequence of the effect. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/vocal_remover.html If you are not using the Vocal ...

... microphone connected to your computer? We only know as much about your system as you tell us, which is currently very little. This information may help you to provide necessary information: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=63799

still no fix in the recording,, sounds as if been recorded in a tunnel or something any help??

... continues full force. I monitor the waveform clipping and get tracks full of red. I'm using Audacity 2.0.0.0 and Mac OSX 10.6.8. Thanks for any help!

Drag-select a portion of the show with noise only. No voices. Effect > Noise Removal > Profile.
Then drag-select or just select the show you want to clean and Effect > Noise Removal > Set the Sliders > OK.

That's the two sentence version of Noise Reduction.

Koz

You have two problems with that clip. There is hum/buzz from possibly a bad microphone cable and there is also hiss from possibly a bad microphone preamplifier. Under the best conditions, we can produce a show with quiet spaces between the words, but noisy words. Also, once you remove the noise, it ...

Thanks for the help, up and running now and quality seems fine on first impressions. I have a chrome cassette that seems to have slightly more volume on one channel than the other (it was recorded on a 4-track Fostex and mixed down ...