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Recording issues
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:07 pm
by MegaJohnny
So I'm making a song with a friend, using Audacity to edit the audio, and we've gotten round to recording the voice.
The problem is, when he's recording it, he sounds perfectly in time, but when we press stop the waveform squashes a bit, and we notice that by the end of the verse it's horribly out of time, as if the voice is too fast.
We're just using a headphone mic to do this. Anyone know what's going on and how to fix it?
Re: Recording issues
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:14 pm
by kozikowski
Reading carefully between the words in your post, I'm going to assume you didn't record the music, just the voice? The digital format of the two doesn't match. A new recording in Audacity will occur at the settings in your Preference Panels. An imported track will be at whatever the producer wanted -- probably not matching what you did. You're listening to what happens when you do that.
You can change the format of the tracks in Super or Switch or the conversion program of your choice.
Right-Click > Properties > Summary or Advanced.
The least trouble WAV format is 44100, 16-bit, Stereo. Other formats have advantages depending on what you want to do.
Koz
Re: Recording issues
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 3:26 pm
by MegaJohnny
I'm not familiar with those programs.
As for some more info, when I finish recording, I notice a pair of white arrows appear, pointing to the left, at the start of the waveform above and below the centre. What do these arrows signify?
Also yeah, for the music I'm just taking another song and snipping together the sections in different ways.
Re: Recording issues
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:14 am
by steve
MegaJohnny wrote:when I finish recording, I notice a pair of white arrows appear, pointing to the left, at the start of the waveform above and below the centre. What do these arrows signify?
They signify that the track has been adjusted a small way to the left to compensate for latency. This is only a small shift (about 0.1 second) and is usually about right to compensate for latency. It shifts the whole of the track by the same amount, so it would not account for the track speeding up or slowing down.
MegaJohnny wrote:The problem is, when he's recording it, he sounds perfectly in time, but when we press stop the waveform squashes a bit
What do you mean " the waveform squashes a bit" ?