Clipping or Distortion on Vocal High Notes of Ripped Audio

[MLK3329]

Steve,

Sure, I could do that if you tell me how to accomplish this! I've never uploaded audio to a social networking site or to even my own, work-in-progress, website as yet. It's almost finished, with an Audio & Video Clip page but I haven't as yet, uploaded any audio to it due to my current predicament.

Thanks for your quick reply and suggestion.
MLK3329

[steve]

To upload a file, look below the box where you type your forum message and there is a tab for "Upload Attachments".

[MLK3329]

Steve,

What will be "showing" if I post this clip to the Forum? I mean, when I uploaded the clip my name was in the "Browse" box along with the name of the song, etc. I don't really want that and don't know how to change it. You know "Users/Name Name/Porgi Amor/etc." I want help, but want to keep my privacy as well! How can we get around that? I'm really a PC person who's getting used to using a Mac! LOL

It's all set. I have a 6 second clip for you if we can solve this little problem.

Thanks.
MLK3329

[billw58]

What will be "showing" if I post this clip to the Forum? I mean, when I uploaded the clip my name was in the "Browse" box along with the name of the song, etc. I don't really want that and don't know how to change it. You know "Users/Name Name/Porgi Amor/etc." I want help, but want to keep my privacy as well! How can we get around that? I'm really a PC person who's getting used to using a Mac! LOL
It's all set. I have a 6 second clip for you if we can solve this little problem.

All that will show in the forum is the name of the file. The "full path" to the file will not show.
For example http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 49#p117467

-- Bill

[kozikowski]

There is no distortion when I play my CD collection on it.

That's an interesting observation. If you're a lyric soprano, my guess is you're not glued to your collection of pulse-thumping, Euro Electro-Trance albums. You probably have carefully made and possibly years old classical concert and orchestral productions. I'll also bet that they were recorded in the original sound standard for Music CDs which is a lot quieter than what's being issued now.

So our job is to generate a musical selection that, when burned to a Music CD, causes your, and only your car to fail. Let's see. Valkyrie are good. Let's see if I can find any Valkyrie.

And yes, I do think there's something wrong with your car player.

Koz

[kozikowski]

No Valkyrie, but I did find a nice Kathleen Battle.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/battle.wav

Burn that to a Music CD. Don't do anything to it, don't process it, don't adjust it. Just dump it into your Music CD burner, burn it and play it in the car. I bet it distorts on the soprano peaks, although all of them are perfectly legal and clear (although just barely).

Koz

[kozikowski]

And no, Deutsche Grammophon did not produce it like that.

Koz

[waxcylinder]

MLK, I note that you mention in the thread that you have normalized your recording to 0db - Now while this is "legal", as Koz alludes to, it is the case that some software players and CD players will cause clipping at that level. Accordinglingly I only ever "normalize" my recordings to -2.0 dB (plenty loud enough).

I use Audacity's Amplify effect for the "normalizationon" rather than the Normalize effect as the Normalize in Audacity works on each stereo channel independentltly and can thus change/damage the stereo image - Amplify on the other hand applies the same correction to both channels.

Note however that Normalize can be useful if you have inherently unbalanced equipment that you are recording from.

WC

[MLK3329]

Bill/Steve/Koz/WC:

Thanks for the info. I'm learning, that's for sure. LOL I did send the 6 second clip to another email account of mine and it did "appear" just as you said it would. Should have thought about that before asking you guys.

I do hope that my car CD player is the problem because then, I won't have to edit these songs all over again. I've enjoyed learning how to use Audacity... but enough is enough. I've been trying to produce this CD for awhile now.

Thanks for your input and suggestions.

I've attached the file.

MLK3329

Porgi Amor Test.wav

(1019.76 KiB) Downloaded 65 times

[kozikowski]

Sounds fine to me. See what happens when you pull down and burn that Battle segment. I bet it sounds dreadful in the car.
Koz