Audacity Forum

Sorry it's not possible to improve that. The voice recorder has made the "best quality" recording that it can with a very small amount of data. To do this it "throws away" the least important data. Unfortunately so much data has been discarded that the remaining data produces sou...

This set of tutorials from the manual my be useful to you: http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/man ... to_cd.html

In particular this suggested workflow: http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/man ... ation.html

WC

... I'm not too familiar with the techy language, in terms of sound, and after a good while of searching and reading I ended up with nothing. Please help a beginner :) Recently I was recording on a Olympus Voice recorder. Unfortunately, as I'm a total noob, I have left it set to LP mode and now the ...

Import RAW is only for uncompressed files.

If normal import won't import the files, you can record them into Audacity thus:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/man ... n_mac.html


Gale

... cuts off the back end of the song as if I had trimmed that end of it and I can't figure out how to get it back. Thank you in advance for your help. Jen

... If you have not already, also check in "Sound" in Windows for "enhancements" you can turn off (http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/manual/man/faq_recording.html#enhancements). Look for any similar or relevant settings in the Sabrent control panel if it has one (look in the ...

Roger25 wrote:Is there a way to set an entire song frequency maximum that will reduce those high notes, but leave everything else untouched?

Turn down the treble.

Roger25 wrote:Is there any way to edit out repetitive background music?

No.

-- Bill

Thanks.

Edit > Clip Boundaries > Split New as per http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/man ... #split_new .



Gale

Similar problem with the drums. If the drummer happens to hit the pitch where your speakers incorrectly accentuate the sound, it will drive you nuts -- and there doesn't seem to be anything wrong, you just don't like listening to some sounds. Is it possible to listen to some of the music on a CD in ...

(you may not like this response, but ..) You probably need to get some better loudspeakers. It is extraordinarily difficult to make speakers that do not over accentuate particular frequencies, that's what you pay the money for. If speakers (or headphones) resonate at a particular frequency, then if ...