Hi,
My recording quality in audacity is terrible. Listen :
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/fr/dictionnaire/anglais/england?q=England
(you can click on the little speaker to hear the difference with the attachment)
I screenshoted my recording settings. I record in stereo, 44100khz 32bit-float.
It doesn’t sound “terrible” : the voices are clear, but does sounds like a bassy (tube-y?) effect is being applied.
Try turning off Windows audio enhancements before making another recording of what the computer is playing.
[ There could also be a second layer of audio enhancements ]
Actually this is not shocking for this exemple but I have other one which really is (and I still can’t really explain why… same site, didn’t change any settings)
Hey, listen :
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/fr/dictionnaire/anglais/france
I mean this clearly not faithful it’s like the thing has been recorded from a phone or something… Pretty sure everybody there can record things with undetectable loss, right ?
Hey I think I found it. There were no enhancement in the sound control panel, but like you suggested with your second link, Maxxaudio had the settings on multimedia, and I switched it to Off.
This is way better like that.
The noise is normal I guess ?
With noise reduction effect in Audacity :
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/france
On the enhancements in sound control panel, I saw that my devices were set in different modes :
16-bits 48khz
24-bits 48khz
I had the possibility to set them even in 192khz. Isn’t it better ?
Thanks anyway !
IMO keep everything (including audacity) at 48kHz.
192kHz is overkill and may even be counterproductive: it may cause the audio to glitch.
Thanks.
Is there a way to put the topic as solved ? I edit the title ?
Unfortunately we don’t have a “solved” button, so simply saying that it is solved is sufficient.
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Thanks for sharing the solution. I’ll close this topic as solved.