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Possible ground loop when recording audio via phantom power into laptop through old audio interface

I recently attempted to start recording with my old audio interface (Audio Kontrol 1) in my new laptop (Windows 10), and got a horrible high-pitched metallic noise (specifically 3 distinct peaks ...
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1 answer
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Adobe Audition / Audacity: If I sum all the bins of a FFT (rectangular window), do I always get RMS Amplitude?

First I use Audacity to perform an FFT of an audio clip with a rectangular window. Then I sum all the FFT bin values. Since the FFT bins are expressed in dB, I perform the "decibel sum" like this: ...
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ESI Juli@ - 2 channels in control panel, but Audacity recording only 1

So I am trying to capture audio from my Marantz PM5004, everything is plugged in just fine and ESI Juli@ is detecting the audio playing from both L and R channels, but when I try to record it using ...
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1 answer
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Vestax mixer to Audacity - only hearing one turntable

I have a Vestax PMC25 mixer going to an isolator with 2 Technic 1200s. I'm trying to record onto a Mac using Audacity recording software. I can only get 1 turntable to record. The only output working ...
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Audacity Recorded Commentary Is Out Of Sync With My Webcam And Gameplay Recordings

so basically my commentary that i recorded for a game play video is out of sync with my webcam footage and my gameplay footage Webcam: Logitech C922 Pro Stream Webcam My Microphone: Stadium USBMIC1 (...
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Why did Audacity suddenly muffle many of my sounds, and is there a way of restoring previous versions of a project?

I'm a newb (Clearly, I'm still using Audacity). I'm just getting into EDM and music making and the like, and my first project that I've been working on for some months now took a weird turn today. I ...
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How to remove the robotic sound from an (almost) isolated vocals

THE SITUATION: I have look all around for tutorials about isolating the vocals from a song. There is good material and i have tried several of them. I obtained the best outcome by combining two ...
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Audacity Recording volume too low

I've been using an AT2020 USB directly into my 2015 macbook Pro retina and recording in Audacity. I recently wanted to upgrade to a nicer mic. Every mic I try, the volume is super low. Increasing the ...
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Anyone have any luck fixing/attenuating wireless hits?

Hey Guys, A buddy of mine recently came to me with a seminar vid that contains some pretty nasty RF hits. Unfortunately the only sources are the lav on the speaker and the onboard camera audio (which ...
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1 answer
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Remove one vocal from a conversation

I have two audio tracks, Audio1 and Audio2. Audio1 has voice of Host and Audio2 contains the voice of Guest plus the voice of the host(same as Audio1) Now, is there anyway to utilize Audio1 to omit ...
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Piece-wise synchronization of tracks

I have two independently recorded tracks with the same content that I'd like to synchronize. The problem is, long chunks of silence were independently cut out of both tracks, so even if I align the ...
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Poor sound quality recording off the Behringer 2442 USB interface

I'm trying to record my band using the USB output port into my laptop using Audacity. When I record I check the mic levels are high but the recordings are awful - it only seems to pick-up the lead ...
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Bzzzz noise on guitar pickup when I plug my computer to external battery power source

I have Jackery battery (220V, 500W) and I want to record my guitar with pickup (Dean Markley Pro Mag Plus Acoustic Guitar Single Coil Pickup) on my Focusrite Scarlett 18i20. When I turn on electricity ...
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LSP plugins with Audacity on Linux?

I am using Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (to be reinstalled) and I am trying to use LSP plugins. more precisely - the Phase Detector plugin, with Audacity or Ardour. Alternatively, a simple phase meter app ...
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Improving intelligibility of 4-bit speech with ffmpeg

I have mono 4-bit narrowband PCM audio representing speech. It was apparently created by naively truncating 8-bit PCM without dither (although the source was already noisy). There is a lot of ...

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