Archive for the 'Using Audacity' Category

Finding effects on Audacity

Here’s two questions that came in on the same day about effects on Audacity…
Hi Kenny
I don’t seem to be able to locateĀ Freeverb2 on my audacity.
Please can you help me to locate it or tell me where I can download it?
Cheers
Paul
Hi Paul
Some versions of Audacity ship with the freeverb installed and others don’t which causes confusion!
If [...]

Plugging a microphone in to Audacity

I firmly believe that thereĀ is no such thing as a silly question - only questions you haven’t heard answered yet…
Thanks to Sophia for this question about Audacity - you are not alone and it’s certainly not a silly question…
Hi Kenny,
Thank you so much for the software, it’s fab. You will probably laugh, but I’m new [...]

Fixing backing track volume problems

Martin contacted me with this common problem many singers face when they buy backing tracks from all different companies…
Hi Kenny
Great emails - thanks. Several of my Sinatra backing tracks (bought from various different backing track companies) are at different volume levels to others.
Do you know how I can get them all at the same volume [...]

Audacity timing issues

The questions and comments about Audacity continie to roll in. Thanks to Jean for this question about a common problem…
Hi kenny
Why is it each time I record my voice it comes in late and other times comes in too fast.
How can I fix it?
Jean

Hi Jean
This “delay” is known as latency and is caused by your [...]

Installing the Lame MP3 encoder in Audacity

Kathryn emailed me to ask how to install the MP3 encoder in Audacity so that she can save her songs as MP3 files.
Hiya Kenny
Sorry to be a pain, but is it supposed to be tricky to download the Lame MP3 encoder? Or am i just a bit technically challenged??!!! Any advice?
Thanks, K
Hi Kathryn
Lame is a [...]