Thanks to Janet for this question. Janet contacted me to ask if I knew any alternatives to Audacity…
Hi
I have the free audacity studio which I use regularly but is there anything better? I find some of the onboard fx are not what I want ie the EQ is not really what I want.
Janet

Hi Janet
Audacity is [...]

A warm welcome to Delonzo Gee - a male vocalist from Bristol, the latest singer to create a free webpage at our YourSpace section.
Delonzo Gee has been involved in the music industry since being a teenager-writing and recording. After taking a break from the music scene to raise a family, Delonzo has been working with several reggae and [...]

One of the secrets behind the success of MP3 Backing Trax (apart from the quality of our products of course!) is the honesty with which we conduct our business.
I’ve owned and operated a variety of companies during my many years in the music industry, not just a backing track business, and I can assure you that it’s [...]

Here’s a question I received about troubleshooting audio peaking problems in Audacity and Soundforge…
Hi Kenny, 
Here’s one for you! I use Soundforge 8 for audio editing. I downloaded Audacity Beta, imported a track, normalized to 0.20db….Perfect. I exported in Wav to file, opened the Wav file in Soundforge and pressed  play and made the sound maximum 0.20Db Max. Perfect. I then [...]

It seems there’s still a bit of confusion out there over which is the best bit-rate to choose for backing tracks.
I know I’ve covered this topic quite a few times in this blog and in articles on the MP3 Backing Trax website but the subject reared it’s ugly head again recently when a popular software manufacturer gave some conflicting advice [...]