Re: about audacity and sound recording on Linux

2007-02-27 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:03:41 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, if you want to do all recording and converting on the fly, you can use arecord to record from alsa and pipe the output directly to oggenc or lame (but at least for lame with VBR this might brake the FWIW, sox can do inline

Re: about audacity and sound recording on Linux

2007-02-20 Thread H.S.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:14:00PM -0500, H.S. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. On a machine, I exported a portion of the captured audio to a wav file (basically, saved a portion of the input). I then transfered it to my home computer running Debian. While that

Re: about audacity and sound recording on Linux

2007-02-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:30:34AM -0500, H.S. wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:14:00PM -0500, H.S. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. On a machine, I exported a portion of the captured audio to a wav file (basically, saved a portion of the input). I then

Re: about audacity and sound recording on Linux

2007-02-20 Thread H.S.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: some normalization is obviously happening in the export to .wav. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but if you want the un-normalised data, you'll probably have to leave it in aud format until you get aroundt to mixing/editing or whatever. Of course, you need to

about audacity and sound recording on Linux

2007-02-19 Thread H.S.
Hello, I just started to use audacity with some live recorded music. I have a few starting questions: Audacity: 1. If the input waveform seems to go beyond the +1 and -1 scale, what does that signify? I assume that shows recording circuit is being saturated and that the output from mixer

Re: about audacity and sound recording on Linux

2007-02-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 15:31 -0500, H.S. wrote: 1. If the input waveform seems to go beyond the +1 and -1 scale, what does that signify? I assume that shows recording circuit is being saturated and that the output from mixer should be reduced. I think that's correct. Any waveform that goes

Re: about audacity and sound recording on Linux

2007-02-19 Thread marcus . blumhagen
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 03:31:07PM -0500, H.S. wrote: [...] Audacity: 1. If the input waveform seems to go beyond the +1 and -1 scale, what does that signify? I assume that shows recording circuit is being saturated and that the output from mixer should be reduced. 2. If the input waveform

Re: about audacity and sound recording on Linux

2007-02-19 Thread H.S.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure about audacity as I am not familiar with it, but according to the basics of signal processing going beyond the input gain is never a good idea since this produces additional harmonics resulting in harmonic distortion. So depending on the amount of over

Re: about audacity and sound recording on Linux

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:14:00PM -0500, H.S. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. On a machine, I exported a portion of the captured audio to a wav file (basically, saved a portion of the input). I then transfered it to my home computer running Debian. While that sound wave file was