Institute for Language Sciences Labs

Recording audio

Audio Troubleshooting and solutions in Audacity

This is a troubleshooting guide for problems you might encounter with audio recordings. The solutions make use of the audio editting program Audacity Troubleshooting The audio is not loud enough Normalize audio Loudness in seperate recordings varies too much Normalize audio Within one audio clip, sound levels fluctuate too much Compression Hard Limiter There is…

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Recording audio using a mixer board

Introduction This how-to describes how to record audio when using a microphone that is connected to your computer through a mixer board (or mixer) and which settings to use. This how-to is especially useful to read, if you have encountered problems with clipping. It is always advisable to make a test recording and see if…

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Using the Sound Level Meter

Default settings for the Precision INtegrating Sound Level Meter Type 2230 BK are as follows: Detector: RMS Power: On Time Weighting: Fast Mode: Operate Display: SPL FSD: FSD selects the measurement range of meter. Recommended values for use in the lab are 90 (30-83dB) or 100 (40-93dB) Sound Incidence: Frontal All | max/min | pause:…

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Connecting the Røde PodCaster USB Microphone

Introduction First connect the USB cable to the microphone and to the computer. The first time you do this, the computer will detect the presence of new hardware and install some drivers. When the installation is finished, the microphone might be working right away. But when it doesn’t, check the settings as described below. Troubleshooting guidelines…

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