Hello!
I have used Audacity before with success. I recently installed it on a laptop I have had for 5 years.
When I record off of a youtube video the recording level clips and the recording level slide control has no effect. The recorded audio file is too loud and the audio clips.
I removed and reinstalled Audacity and my sound drivers are up to date.
Any assistance will be appreciated.
The behavior of the recording volume slider seems to vary… Sometimes it works and some times it doesn’t. Sometimes it also doesn’t work with USB inputs. It’s either the drivers or the particular version of Windows.
But turning down the playback volume should also reduce the recording level. Or YouTube has it’s own volume control.
YouTube shouldn’t normally clip. They use volume matching to make everything about the same loudness and that ends-up lowering the volume of most audio tracks.
Of course if whatever is uploaded is clipped, YouTube’s volume adjustment will simply make is quieter without reducing the distortion.
If you knew all the things that can get in the way of your job, you would have to lie down for a while.
Do you have Skype, Zoom, Google Meat, or Multi-Player Games on your machine? They take over the sound services in your machine—sometimes even if they’re turned off. Doing a clean shutdown—not a regular shutdown— can help here.
You can’t actually record YouTube Playback. YouTube sound comes in from your internet services and goes to the speaker or headphone system. Full Stop.
Audacity Recording generally comes from a microphone or line level connection, full stop. You can record from a playback system by crossing them. That is, send the internet sound out to the speaker, grab it, turn it around and send it down the recording pathway. That actually works, but the complaint is you need to keep the speakers up full to get good recording level. That’s annoying. There are ways around that, but they can mean you don’t get to hear the performance as it is happening.
You can run software whose purpose in life is to provide a short-cut pathway between the playback and recording systems. Money-making entertainment producers understandably aren’t too fond of that, so it’s not unusual for them to produce software to obstruct or damage that pathway.
If I need to make a recording like that, I usually set up a machine to play the works perfectly to me and then cable that sound across the desk to a second machine for recording. I don’t tell either machine about the other one.
I think I have an illustration here somewhere.
Koz
I had them. I had a whole segment devoted to recording the internet…
The Audacity wiki doesn’t exist any more and the content, if it survives at all, is sprayed over the current archive services. I can look through my archives. I usually keep copies of this stuff. That may take a while…
Koz
This isn’t the one I was looking for, but it will do.
The machine on the right has full-on internet connection and browser and it thinks it’s playing Denise to my headphones. In reality, it’s playing to my tiny sound mixer.
The sound mixer is shuttling the sound off to the machine on the left which is Audacity recording.
My voice is going into the mixer and also going to Audacity.
I use the fact that the machines can do independent record and playback by forcing the machine on the left to play my music stingers and themes. A copy of my voice is also going from the mixer to Denise’s machine.
Again, Denise’s machine thinks it’s using a simple microphone.
I never stopped to create a perfect Illustration. That was a mistake.
This is a First Pass sound test, so the timing sucks. Denise is four US time zones away from me.
Koz
The standing joke is we spent 80% of the time planning the next podcast.
So if you strip that down to simple parts, the Internet machine on the right is playing production sound to the machine on the left. I can hear the works in real time and the recording quality is terrific.
Koz
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