User:PeterSampson

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Draft FAQ for: Error while opening sound device

This is a link to a draft FAQ response I a developing. This one comes up so many times on the forum, and did again today 16Oct11, that I finally felt nudged to try to do something about it.

User:PeterSampson/FAQ for: Error while opening sound device

Draft subtutorial for Your First Recording: Audacity settings for recording

This is a link to a draft subtutorial I am proposing to add to the Your First Recording. It is in response to Gale's suggestion that I should include material on the software playthrough and overdub settings. I propose to move some of the material from the "Selecting your input" which can then remain focussed on input selection.

And this is what the cut down "Selecting your input" will look like:

Tutorial for CD remixing

This is a link to a draft tutorial for remixing a commercial CD: User:PeterSampson/Tutorial: Re-mixing a CD - Mock Up Version-1
This tutorial was originally written by Audacity user Chuck Moore ( Cfmoore1 ) who wanted to remix some Beatles 2009 Remastered CDs, the early ones which were originally mono but which the studio re-released in 2009 in a pseudo-stereo mix. The studio mix is indeed somewhat odd as it places the instruments on one side of the sound stage and the voices on the other. Sounds ok-ish on speakers if you don't listen closely - but sounds distictly odd on headphones. Chuck undertook for his debut project with Audacity a remix of Please Please Me and has recently finished With The Beatles. His objective was to create a more natural sound stage by taking sound clips and remixing (ambitious for a starter project). I gave him some help with this via the forum and through some PMs. I asked him if he would be good enough to write up his process as a tutorial; this is his draft (which I will Wiki-ise with Wiki markup formatting) - once that is done I will be seeking feedback from the manual "list". He says "I do not mind people putting their knives to what I wrote. The procedure is right but if the wording does not convey to the reader what I did then it needs to be changed."

• Peter 18Jun10: Following f/b from when I first floated this tutorial idea I agree that it is not appropriate for the manual as it is too specific - accordingly.I will probably transfer it to the Wiki at some stage when I get some free time.