[audacity4blind] Re: tracks in 1 project
- From: "Gene" <gsasner@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 12:08:10 -0500
You will probably continue to hear the audio. Make a test recording to
find out. I am not familiar with certain settings in audacity that may
affect what you hear but if you are using default Audacity settings, you
should hear the audio whether Audacity is paused or not. If you don't
hear the audio, let the list know and people who know more about certain
audacity settings may discuss what to change. but I don't think you will
have such a problem.
I don't know how good you are at pausing a recording and resuming at the
right place. When people recorded using tape recorders, pausing the tape
is what people usually did and their recordings sounded like it, too.
Pauses would be of different lengths, bits of unwanted material would
often be included at the point where the recording was paused, in other
words, the results were sloppy. If you want good clean breaks, let the
recorder continue to record and edit the recording after you finish. I'm
not telling you what to do. I'm saying that, unless you are both skilled
and lucky, breaks you create with pause are often going to be sloppy. And
if you learn to edit, you don't have to worry about starting a recording
early and letting it run late. You will be able to edit out the unwanted
material before and after the program. If you are pausing the recording
and making recordings just for your own listening, you may not want to
edit them. You may want to use pause as we have been discussing. but if
you are concerned about making a higher quality recording with clean
breaks, then pause is not the way to do so.
this presentation, by me, introduces the listener to information about
using audacity, including basic editing. At this point, it sounds as
though you are learning in a disorganized manner, picking up bits of
information here and there. You need some sort of organized way of
learning, at least for a time when you start to learn about Audacity.
You can download the presentation at:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25812011/Audacity%20And%20Mp3%20Direct%20Cut.zip
the first part deals with Audacity. The second part deals with Mp3 Direct
Cut, another recording program you may or may not be interested in.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron" <facup1927@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:21 AM
> I'm not recording a record, rather a continuous broadcast from the radio.
> Sometimes I stop the recording because I don't want to record certain
> parts
> of the broadcast. However, I'm wondering if when you press pause, the
> sound
> would stop playing through your computer, to show you were not recording.
>
> Ron
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gene" <gsasner@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 5:14 PM
> Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: tracks in 1 project
>
>
>> I'm not sure what sound you are asking about. the recording will be
>> paused. Whether the recorder is paused or not has nothing to do with
>> whether you hear audio in general such as your screen-reader.
>>
>> I don't see how you are going to forget if you pause a recording. You
>> are
>> recording something, for example, you pause the recording to turn over
>> the
>> record, then you start recording again by once again pressing p. How
>> are
>> you going to forget whether you paused the recording or not during the
>> time you turn the record over.
>>
>> Gene
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ron" <facup1927@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 9:50 AM
>>> I get it I think. So, moving on from that, if you press p for pause
>>> will
>>> the sound stop working? I ask this because you may have forgotten
>>> whether
>>> you have paused or not.
>>>
>>> Another question I have is concerning amplification.
>>>
>>> I recently recorded something where the sound seems too quiet for
>>> comfortable listening. Having tried the Amplify effect nothing seems
>>> to
>>> happen.
>>>
>>> Having read in the forums previously about peek amptitudes etc, it said
>>> something about zooming in to the loudest part to check the levels.
>>> Can
>>> someone please explain how I might do this?
>>>
>>> Many thanks.
>>>
>>> Ron
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Gene" <gsasner@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 5:28 PM
>>> Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: tracks in 1 project
>>>
>>>
>>>> That is not what a track is. You are, evidently, stopping the program
>>>> from recording and then starting to record again. Unless you know how
>>>> to
>>>> do this correctly, every time you stop and start recordding again, you
>>>> will be adding a track. Adding tracks would be used in situations
>>>> where,
>>>> for example, you want to record an instrument playing, then later, add
>>>> a
>>>> track with you singing. For just straight recording of an album,
>>>> either
>>>> just let the recorder record until the end or, if you want to stop and
>>>> resume recording, use the pause command, the letter p. You will pause
>>>> the
>>>> recording, for example, to turn the record over, and then p resumes
>>>> recording and no additional tracks will be added.
>>>>
>>>> Gene
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Ron" <facup1927@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 10:22 AM
>>>>> Hi all.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm struggling with the idea of having more than one track in a
>>>>> project.
>>>>> I can't qquite grasp the concept.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> One project is open and as you cursor key down it says, "table track
>>>>> one
>>>>> select on". Go down and its 2, 3 4 etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I go to track one with the cursor and press space for play, it
>>>>> plays
>>>>> the same on each track which ever one I press the space bar on.
>>>>>
>>>>> I understand tracks to be songs, 7 one side of an lp for example.
>>>>>
>>>>> Therefore, if track one is selected you should be able to hear and
>>>>> work
>>>>> on
>>>>> that track alone.
>>>>>
>>>>> But this doesn't seem to be the case.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone shed more light on this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Ron
>>>>
>>>>
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