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Coupled with Reaper, also free if you're a big cheapo, somewhat analogously to the WinRar model, you get so much great functionality for so little.
Wow; I was one of the first developers to work on Audacity way back in 2001, but I haven't kept up with its development in a long time. It's exciting to see a new major release. I'm always amazed and proud at how widely I see Audacity being used. Most recently I spent the 5 weeks as a juror on a criminal trial, and I saw Audacity installed on the prosecutor's computer.
For any of you who have a lot of hissing or humming coming from your mic when you record podcasts or demo videos for your startups. Audacity can take it out in just a few clicks using its noise removal filter. Just remember, whenever you start recording an audio track, wait 5 seconds before you start talking, and then use those 5 seconds of hissing to build a profile using the noise removal. And apply that to the whole track. My brother and I were blown away at how well it took all the hissing out. I recorded on a $9 Walmart mike and it sounded like studio quality work. Crisp, clean voice, pure hiss-less silence between sentences.
Thank you and all of its developers. Audacity is a perfect example of easy to use, easy to learn, open source software.
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Agreed. I was really hoping that with 2.0, there would be at least some attempt at refining the interface. Compare the interface to Reaper (The Cockos team has three main contributors, right?), Cubase or Vegas, or if you want to get shiny, Propellerheads or Line6. A fresh coat of paint goes a long way.
Sorry to be snarky; but, compare $0 (Audacity) to $225 (reaper), $500 (cubase), $600 (vegas), $130 (Propellerheads).
Wow; I was one of the first developers to work on Audacity way back in 2001, but I haven't kept up with its development in a long time. It's exciting to see a new major release. I'm always amazed and proud at how widely I see Audacity being used. Most recently I spent the 5 weeks as a juror on a criminal trial, and I saw Audacity installed on the prosecutor's computer.
It sure has been a long time, hasn't it? Audacity 2.0 has been in development since 2005 (in form of the "unstable" 1.3.x series)! haberman and I first met when I started contributing to Audacity more than a decade ago. Later he helped me apply for a job at Amazon.com and we became teammates. Since then we've drifted away from Audacity development, both left Amazon to work in startups, and haberman is now at Google w…
Whenever I have used audacity to do simple audio edits I feel like I am using an elephant gun for a fly swatter. For some reason I never feel the same way when I use gimp to do the equivalent minor image modification.
it works great but some visual polish wouldn't hurt...
Agreed. I was really hoping that with 2.0, there would be at least some attempt at refining the interface. Compare the interface to Reaper (The Cockos team has three main contributors, right?), Cubase or Vegas, or if you want to get shiny, Propellerheads or Line6. A fresh coat of paint goes a long way.
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Sorry, but I haven't used Audacity in a while ... how exactly do you record Skype calls with it? Is there some sort of integration with the app or your sound card?
How To Enable “Stereo Mix” in Windows [Vista+] (to Record Audio) http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/39532/how-to-enable-stereo-mi... I payed for Pamela long ago; now the free version records 15 minutes. (Don't know if I can still recommend them though, now tying in TrialPay for some reason.) http://www.pamela.biz/en/products/
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Agreed. I was really hoping that with 2.0, there would be at least some attempt at refining the interface. Compare the interface to Reaper (The Cockos team has three main contributors, right?), Cubase or Vegas, or if you want to get shiny, Propellerheads or Line6. A fresh coat of paint goes a long way.
Sorry to be snarky; but, compare $0 (Audacity) to $225 (reaper), $500 (cubase), $600 (vegas), $130 (Propellerheads).
Reaper's license only costs $225 for full commercial use exceeding $20,000 in revenue. Otherwise it's $65 for the exact same software. Not a bad deal at all.
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On Windows my sound drivers include something called stereo mix. You can record this through audacity to get their side of the conversation. To record yourself as well you need to set your mic to playback through your speakers, but then you hear yourself speaking. There may be a better way, but that's what I've always done if I needed to record on Skype.
Maybe audacity's changed since I tried it, used to be that by chosing stereo in audacity your skype input was automatically set to stereo too.
If you (still) use an emu10kn-based card (such as the SB Live), the kX project drivers allow custom routing, mixing, and alteration of inputs and outputs via the card's built-in DSP chip.