i think mike has made pretty well progress over GN.I was observing him since his first post and it looks like he's gonna be a good player by sometime. 8)
i think mike has made pretty well progress over GN.I was observing him since his first post and it looks like he's gonna be a good player by sometime. 8)
You must be talking about mikey! :?: :roll:
Just out of curiosity, when recording guitar to your computer, how much hard disk space is it taking up? Do I need to invest in a separate hard drive just for the music? And will Audacity (sp?) compress the music so I can burn it to CD and clear the hard drive?
Sorry if these are obvious questions.....just curious.
"Practice until you get a guitar welt on your chest...if it makes you
feel good, don't stop until you see the blood from your fingers.
Then you'll know you're on to something!"
- Ted Nugent
It was a good improvement! I'm doing the same thing. I'm about 4 weeks in and I have all my gear, but haven't set it up yet.
Just out of curiosity, when recording guitar to your computer, how much hard disk space is it taking up? Do I need to invest in a separate hard drive just for the music? And will Audacity (sp?) compress the music so I can burn it to CD and clear the hard drive?
Sorry if these are obvious questions.....just curious.
The space you need depends on how many files you save and how big they are (and how full your hard drive already is.). Most likely you are only doing one file at a time. For mp3's the rule of thumb is for every minute of recording there is 1 megabyte of size. So a 3 minute song would be around 3 mb.
As for compression, mp3 is about as compressed as you want to go (there is another format but it's not widely used yet). The more you "compress" a file the more it degrades. Plus believe it or not when making standard audio CD's you are actually ENLARGING the file. To prove that look at how many mp3's you can put on a CD (standard 700mb cd) compared to the 15-18 songs on a audio cd...
Just out of curiosity, when recording guitar to your computer, how much hard disk space is it taking up? Do I need to invest in a separate hard drive just for the music? And will Audacity (sp?) compress the music so I can burn it to CD and clear the hard drive?
Sorry if these are obvious questions.....just curious.
Mike answered your question, but just to be really clear:
Audacity will use much more space when you are recording/mixiing, working with multiple tracks, but it gets compressed when you finally write out the MP3 and DELETE the original audacity files. I imported a 6 or 7M mp3 into audacity to clip part of it, and I remember that took about 300M. So as long as you are not working on many recordings and planning to keep the original projects around, you should not need much space. If you want to keep all the raw data, then you may need extra hard drive space.
--vink
"Life is either an adventure or nothing" -- Helen Keller
Check to make sure you don't have "line in" audio muted (go to your pc's volume control thingy.) My guitar is live as soon as I connect it to the pc, even if Audacity isn't open, and there is no noticable delay. I'm using a desktop not a laptop, but it shouldn't matter.
line in isn't muted. I'll get around to trying it through my desktop in a day or so and see if there is any difference between that and the laptop.
Michael
Playing an instrument is good for your soul
i think mike has made pretty well progress over GN.I was observing him since his first post and it looks like he's gonna be a good player by sometime. 8)
You must be talking about mikey! :?: :roll:
Nope i m talking about you mikespe :wink:
Does Audacity save the original files as WAV or its own format?
"Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution"
Does Audacity save the original files as WAV or its own format?
You can import wav and mp3 and you either save the whole thing as an Audacity Project with it's own extension or you can export a wav or mp3...They are currently working on the ability to import midis as well
I hav midi tracks in my computer.How do i record my voice over them :?
Audacity does currently import some midi files but if the ones you have don't work you can play the midi file and record it in Audacity using the stereo mix option in Audacity.
Now that you have the track in Audacity so you record a second track while playing the first midi track in Audacity by switching the input back to line in, microphone or whatever your input mode is.
Audacity does currently import some midi files but if the ones you have don't work you can play the midi file and record it in Audacity using the stereo mix option in Audacity.
Really? Well that's good to know. I'll have to try to figure out how to do that. Thanks, Nils.
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Did you say something to offend yourself so you had to delete your own message :lol: :lol:
