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: 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 fi

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 i

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

2007-02-19 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

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 gain

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 wav

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