Sounds like to me you're boosting not only your headphone volume, sounds as if to me your also cranking up your mic. Since I'm not at all furmilur with what device you're working with, I personally can't help. Have you checked the settings in your control pannel, sounds & audio devices to see where that is at? Have you looked at your settings in audacity, options, recording to see where they're set at? I set my settings at about 40% on my mic settings then adjust upwards as I need to after recording. As I stated in earlier email. These settings are probably much lower than others would use. But, I'm a big mouth & talk loud, just ask my wife... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johchi" <Johchi@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 01:07 Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Amplification
Hi!A technician at Sweetwater Sound was helping me, via remote computer to computer servicing, with my new ZED mixing board's sound card update and settings. In the process he somehow changed the recording volume in Audacity. I have been unable to get back in touch with that spacific tech at Sweetwater since then. My problem is that as I am recording in Audacity on a mic, I need to really boost my headphone volume onthe mixing board to be able to clearly hear what is going on. Then when I hit playback, the playback volume from Audacity is too loud and is sometime distorting. My question is: Is there a way for a blind user to put recording levels back to factory settings?Thanks, John On 9/19/2013 4:04 PM, Sean Paul wrote:You can set your recording levels in your control panel then use gain after you record. I prefer this method over using amplification as I have more control over it and can make small changes as I need to make them without the possibility of effecting my recording. I set my mic levels lower than probably most folks do so that I can increase them through gain. This helps me aleviate the background noise which is produced by the room that I record in. Even though I do use & recommend a dynamic mic, you're still going to get some background noise especially if you've your mic settings cranked up.----- Original Message ----- From: Ron To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 09:56 Subject: [audacity4blind] Amplification Hi all.Some tape recorders had a visible thing that went in to the red when your recording level was too loud and it would create distortion. I understand that Audacity has the same, though this is unusable for people with screen readers. Is there any way we can get round this? Can you set Audacity to always record consistently regarding the sound and noise level?We can hear the difference base, treble, pitch, speed etc. makes to a recording However we can't hear what Normalise or leveler might do. It seems these are more visual things for some kind of effect? I appreciate there is more to it, but could anyone please simplify?I just want to make recordings that have a set standard sound quality and the same level of volume.Using Windows xp with Jaws 13. Interested to hear what you think. RonThe audacity4blind web site is at //www.freelists.org/webpage/audacity4blind Subscribe and unsubscribe information, message archives, Audacity keyboard commands, and more... To unsubscribe from audacity4blind, send an email to audacity4blind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with subject line unsubscribe
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