Need tips on how to set audacity to record dog bark and whines , how to see them easily and to find them

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HI,

I just bought a dedicated laptop to record dog vocal activity while im not home. I use audacity 3.77 and have a usb samsonq1 mic.

1 how to make sure that the mic will pick up even the small whines?( dog will be from 1meter to 10 meter)

2When I look at the bleu line I can barely see the places where louder event happened. how do I make it so that the big barks are more easily differentiable vs the small whines?

3 When I add the multiview, i see the bleu wave even smaller… what can I do?

4Any advice on how I should proceed generally? The recording will be from 20min to 4 hours long. the ssd is 240gb but I would like not to have too heavy files. amd processor a12 9700p, 8 gb of ddr4.

thanks

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Samson Q1 is a mono, not stereo, microphone. You could save some memory by recording in mono.

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/audio_settings_preferences.html (Recording channels 1).

IMO a logarithmic spectrum vertical scale would make the barks easier to see …

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Hi Trebor Thank for the info, I will try the logarithmic when I will have barking. Can this option be selected after the recording or whenever?

I would like to still have the blue line to see. But now it is just tiny dots using 5 pourcent of the height of the rectangle . Why ? I would like to see high waves that use 90 pourcent of the height of the rectangle

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After the recording, select all the audio, then apply amplify effect.

If that’s not enough, apply (soft) limiter with make-up gain.

You can also vertically zoom-in on the blue wave, but zooming does not make it louder.

(can zoom-in as the recording is happening, but not with amplify or limiting).

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HI I made a 6 hours recording with samsom mic. it is a 3.6 gb aup file. Im trying to put it on a usb thum 32gb. ex fat. it takes forever. 2hours now and estimates another 1hour 30 but it always gets longer.

do you knwo why. I clicked back up project to the usb and the usb port and key is 3.0 …

thanks

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I don’t know why it’s taking so long… Sometimes USB is slow and it seems to depend on the particular thumb drive…

if you export as 16-bit WAV it should be half the size or smaller. (Project files use 32-bit floating point and they can contain additional “undo” information.)

CD quality audio is 16-bits x 44.1k samples per second x 2 channels. There are 8-bits in a byte so that works-out to 176K bytes per second or about 10MB per minute. (Mono is half that.)

FLAC (lossless compression) is usually a little bigger than half the size of the WAV.

A “good quality” MP3 (lossy compression) should be about 1/10th the size of the project.

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Taking a very long time to fill a jump drive is often a sign of a counterfeit that is modified to look larger than it really is. Try using a different jump drive.

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thanks have a nice day

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Hi Is there a way for me to discover or lets say clearly establish or verify the datatraveler 100 g3 32 gb in questions here is legit or a fake?

I bought it on amazon. Is amazon a place of scam? is yes how to get the usb that are not fake?

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I tested with a lexar ntsf 8gb and it took 4 min instead of 4 hours with the data traveller exfat

when I read google it says both should be similar in time . Is is possible that audacity projet just dont land well on exfat?

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ValiDrive is a program that will check a jump drive. It is written by Gibson Research, which is a company I trust very much.

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