Audacity Forum

Gale, if I am understanding the question correctly, it was a new project. I start a new project for each recording. What I was left with was 1 hour of 23 minutes recorded, with the first 1 hour 9 minutes blank and then suddenly the audio comes in.

Avoiding clipping is the same issue regardless of what you are recording. The signal level through all parts of the signal chain must be within the limits of the equipment. That means that the microphone must be able to handle the sound pressure level (SPL) produced by the speaker, the pre-amp must ...

Trying to record two guitar parts to get a guitar duo effect using Audacity. Just close miked the speaker cab nothing fancy. It's only sounding "alright" right now not great. Need suggestions for getting the best sound with Audacity. Questions: 1) Best ways to get rid of digital clipping? ...

See tutorials 4 and 5 listed on this page: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tuto ... iscs_to_CD

Hi all,i need loads of help,being an old bugga i dont know the jargon for cutting and editing,so in my language here goes. I have a CD of a local band playing a gig,but when i play it in the car or at home it plays as one track, now ...

Audacity version: 1.3.13-beta (Unicode) In Audacity > Preferences > Directories, the location of the temporary files directory is /var/folders/-v/-v+FcVUeHwCDXf-mN3S4A++++TI/-Tmp-/audacity-scott It "looks" as it that is a "normal" sort of path: http://forum.audacityteam.org/view...

... be able to see only those metadata fields that Win Explorer will recognize. Am I doing something wrong or does anyone have any thoughts that might help?

willsband wrote:In Audacity > Preferences > Directories, the location of the temporary files directory is

/var/folders/-v/-v+FcVUeHwCDXf-mN3S4A++++TI/-Tmp-/audacity-scott

I'm not a Mac user, but to me that looks really weird.
I've asked for a second opinion about this.

Just stopped at home and have the following additional info: Audacity version: 1.3.13-beta (Unicode) In Audacity > Preferences > Directories, the location of the temporary files directory is /var/folders/-v/-v+FcVUeHwCDXf-mN3S4A++++TI/-Tmp-/audacity-scott The box for play and/or record using RAM is ...

If you're getting the red meter, then you you are recording something, but perhaps it is just very quiet. Try applying the Amplify effect (with default settings) to what you have recorded. Anything now? If it has recorded at a very low level then the sound quality after you have amplified will proba...