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Title: what exactly should do with Audacity???
Post by: mikesalvo on April 23, 2007, 12:29:17 AM
hey yall,

yet anither newb. question from myself. I use Audacity to track the recordings off my JB3. Typically I import, normalize, then amplify. Am I doing all the right things???
Title: Re: what exactly should do with Audacity???
Post by: Brian Skalinder on April 23, 2007, 12:40:29 AM
Quote from: mikesalvo on April 23, 2007, 12:29:17 AM
yet anither newb. question from myself. I use Audacity to track the recordings off my JB3. Typically I import, normalize, then amplify. Am I doing all the right things???

Audacity's Normalize function only normalizes to -3 dBFS for some reason.  So to get to 0 dBFS when normalizing, one also needs to use the Amplify function.  No point in doing both - skip Normalize and use only Amplify to boost your levels accordingly.

As for "all the right things", it depends on what you're trying to accomplish, the recording bit-depth and sample rate and final bit-depth and sample rate, etc.
Title: Re: what exactly should do with Audacity???
Post by: tapeworm48 on April 23, 2007, 01:18:31 PM

can you track in Audacity without introducing mini-gaps or SBEs?  can you create a cue sheet?
Title: Re: what exactly should do with Audacity???
Post by: Brian Skalinder on April 23, 2007, 01:41:50 PM
Quote from: tapeworm48 on April 23, 2007, 01:18:31 PM
can you track in Audacity without introducing mini-gaps or SBEs?  can you create a cue sheet?

Yes and sorta/not really.

Track w/o SBEs:

Audacity provides the option to export (File | Export Labels) and import (Project | Import Labels) labels, including names and the time markers.  But it doesn't appear to be a generic cue sheet format, e.g. the exported text file won't load into CD-Wave.
Title: Re: what exactly should do with Audacity???
Post by: tapeworm48 on April 24, 2007, 01:28:46 PM
Good to know.  Thanks Brian.