Audacity Forum

... increase the volume on the quieter portions so that all of the volumes are uniform? I am not very familiar with generic terms in audio, so please help me by telling me which menu I need to go to and what term to look for. Thanks a lot.

In this day and age why try to distribute your music on CD ? [ Isn’t that a form of vanity publishing , (a loss-making venture) }. Stick your music on the internet for download, you’ll reach a larger market and the overheads negligible compared with the cost of having 100’s of CDs made. [ It will st...

Thanks for all the help, billw58, kozikowski, & steve. I'm learning stuff I never even knew existed, which is a good thing I guess. I never realized my recordings might not work in some .mp3 players, though fortunately, that sounds ...

Thank you , but what I was after was more the 10,000 foot (3300M) view. They are accepting your stereo work and preparing it so it hangs together in a pleasant and desirable manner as a sequence of songs on a music CD. If I had to guess... I think I'd be finding out for sure myself. "Can you st...

So what are your "Mastering" people doing exactly? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastering If I had to guess, I'd say that the Mastering people are doing some amount of EQ and Compression, and album-spanning normalization. Like any processing, it can be over-done or under-done, but for man...

Hi Bill,
thank you so much for you precious help.
Merry Christmas!

Federica

Hi, hoping for a quick response since I'm in the middle of attempting this. You may just call me "N. Ept." I've successfully imported from a CD into iTunes, but am confused about how to get tracks from iTunes into an Audacity project to start editing. Any help out there for us dummies?

... be amplified back down to 0 dB without damage. If there were just the bass and treble controls then I don't think there would be any need for the help screens either (it works just the same as bass and treble on a domestic amplifier).

... a second. I found a "Silence" option in the "Generate" menu but doesn't seem to have an option for fractions of a second? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

... (or different cables?) to use. I have garage Band but, as far I've understood, it works just if you transfer while you are playing. Thanks for the help, Federica