Hi all, I really need help here… I am using Audacity version 1.3 Beta Unicode,
I am having problem recording my voice while I sing Long notes… For example… I am singing a song with Long notes… like 8 beats about 6 sec… when I recorded it I can hear the only 1st 3sec or 4 beats of my voice only and the rest is silent (no sound at all) and even the meter toolbar (microphone column doesen’t move after 3 sec) … how can this happen?.. when I was actually singing 8 beats and long about 6 sec? Can any body help me…
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now that said
are you positive that you are actually singing that long?
i have found at times that playing the flute that i get no sound
i am tonguing and fingering and doing everything i need to do
but
my breath has actually stopped and i didnt realise it
dont know why
perhaps central apnea
but without the air flow
there is no sound
8 seconds is a long time
could your wind reserve be used up
and you are not really making any sound for the last few seconds?
I am sure that I sing that long about 6 sec to 8 sec long just to hold up my breath, while I was playing Oboe, I can play a Long note to hold for 1 minutes… And When I use Playback I can hear my voice… unless I stop… but in recorded version I can only hear 3 sec long… the rest was like very soft and I need to adjust the volume to very loud or else I can’t hear… I don’t why this can happen… I tried to adjust my Microphone to softer volume… but still no change…
Finally I found out the reason why The Sound quality is gone or say no sound after 3sec while I sing a long notes… it is just because a setting in microphone… there is a Default Format setting and I need to choose the best quality on it… 16bits, 96000 Hz (Studio Quality)…
Anyway, thks for your reply… can hear my voice now… thks
<<Anyway, thks for your reply… can hear my voice now… thks???
WAIT!! Don’t go away!! You are the one and only person that’s managed to solve this problem and can tell us what you did. It’s worth a lot of chocolate to us for you to tell us exactly what control panel you were in and what the other options were. Screen captures are good.
Possibly skipping, if your previous sample rate was unfeasibly high, (96KHz may still be higher than you need).
Possibly “sound activated recording” cutting you off after the volume drops below threshold.
The default setting for “sound activated recording” is off, (by resetting to defaults you would have switched it off if it was on).
With the Picture above… that is the setting I made when I tried to adjust Microphone setting in Realtek HD audio Manager.
when I was having problem while singing long notes only 1st 3 sec have sound after that no sound or the sound quality totally change. It was because I choose the 1st (2) Option ( 16bits, 44100Hz CD Quality, 16 bits, 48000 DVD Quality)
but when I change it to the 3rd Option, My recording was perfect. this is what I have done on my Mirophone setting.
2nd setting that I have made is the Microphone Boost Setting. that is a Button beside the volume button of ( Recording Volume ) make it to +20.0dB, it might help to get clearer and loader recording from your microphone.
U need to go to Control Penal > Realtek HD Audio Control Penal. but I guess every computer have different version of driver. but i think almost all are the same.
You can check it and give a try…
thanks and I hope this will help all the members here.
With the Picture above… that is the setting I made when I tried to adjust Microphone setting in Realtek HD audio Manager.
when I was having problem while singing long notes only 1st 3 sec have sound after that no sound or the sound quality totally change. It was because I choose the 1st (2) Option ( 16bits, 44100Hz CD Quality, 16 bits, 48100 DVD Quality)
but when I change it to the 3rd Option, My recording was perfect. this is what I have done on my Mirophone setting.
2nd setting that I have made is the Microphone Boost Setting. that is a Button beside the volume button of ( Recording Volume ) make it to +20.0dB, it might help to get clearer and loader recording from your microphone.
U need to go to Control Penal > Realtek HD Audio Control Penal. but I guess every computer have different version of driver. but i think almost all are the same.
You can check it and give a try…
thanks and I hope this will help all the members here.
It should not make any difference which digital sound standard you use. Music CD should work as well as the others given that it’s very slightly lower quality than the one you’re using now.
Munyee is posting from Malaysia, so that’s the time zone.
If you find the Sound Activated Recording turned on, you can turn it off and get all your other quality settings back – but please check.
<<<Possibly “sound activated recording” cutting you off after the volume drops below threshold.
The default setting for “sound activated recording” is off, (by resetting to defaults you would have switched it off if it was on).>>>
Why would the performance volume have changed? There is still the ghost of telephone/VOIP/Skype service running through this. Voice Contouring and Echo Cancellation does not allow sustained single sung notes.
It should not, but on Windows 7 it appears that quite often it does. This scenario has come up before and I think it is documented somewhere in the Windows 7 notes on the wiki (I’m about to go out so sorry I can’t look it up right now).
I was still can hear my voice after I did My recording, Is not totally I cannot hear my voice at all… is just when I SING A LONG NOTES LIKE 8 BEATS LONG. I can’t hear the 4th beat to 8th beats… only the 1st 4 beats i can hear… so the problem is came from the Microphone setting as I mention on my previous post with a picture I attached, Is not the sound activated recording problem.
But anyway thanks. Bcz I have already settle this problem.
I know this is an old thread, but it doesn’t offer the solution I required using win7.
I did the following to solve the problem:
Go to Control Panel via the Start button/icon in the lower left corner
Select ‘Sound’
Click on the ‘Recording’ tab
Right click on the Microphone icon and select ‘Properties’
Select the ‘Enhancements’ tab
Uncheck the ‘Noice Suppression’ check box.
Once I did this I was able to record long sustained notes properly.
