User:PeterSampson

Peter Sampson's user page

Front Page mockups for "Using Audacity" and "Reference Guide"

Strawman-2 - provided by Ed

http://manual.audacityteam.org/m/index.php?title=User:Edgar/front&rcid=18061

http://manual.audacityteam.org/m/index.php?title=User:Edgar/page1&rcid=18062

http://manual.audacityteam.org/m/index.php?title=User:Edgar/page2&rcid=18063

Temporary links for new FAQs

These FAQs are in the process of being transferred from the Wiki>Troubleshoting recordings to the Manual>FAQ>Recording - DONE

User:PeterSampson/FAQ - When I try to record I get only a flat line and no sound. Why? - DONE

User:PeterSampson/FAQ - Why does my recording keep pausing automatically or why is my recording cursor stuck? - DONE

User:PeterSampson/FAQ - How do I make a recording without small skips or duplications? - DONE

User:PeterSampson/FAQ - Why do I get a periodic noise every 6 - 12 seconds? - DONE

Gale 04 May12: Unsure if we need the following two FAQ's - or if they are needed, the wrong question is being asked.

• Peter 5May12: Well we certainly get asked about fairly frequently on the forum (skips very frequently) so my preference would be to retain them. They are in the Wiki>Recording Troubleshooter, so they were thought useful back when that page was put together in the Wiki. In fact the FAQ>Recording is turning out a bit like a "Recording Troubleshooter" and may want thus to be relocated to a more prominent and discoverable location in the manual - in which case they would probably not be framed as questions.

User:PeterSampson/FAQ - Why do I get an unbalanced stereo recording? - DONE

User:PeterSampson/FAQ - Why is the recorded waveform not centered on the horizontal line at 0.0? - DONE

User:PeterSampson/FAQ - Why do I get crackles, pops, or distortion when the recording is loud? - clipping - DONE, segued with the red-line FAQ

User:PeterSampson/FAQ - Why does my overdubbed recording drifts out-of-sync? - DONE, incorporated into the existing related FAQ

Temporary page for Koz' tutorials on overdub recording

This tutorial set has now been published: Tutorial - Recording Multi-track Overdubs

Link to orphan page from this tutorial set: User:PeterSampson/Tutorial: Overdubbing using software methods

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.