Audio refers broadly to the information, be it acoustic or electronic, entering, traversing, or exiting some medium.
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Audio effect: tune to a particular frequency
What software configuration or VST do you recommend for taking a realtime audio feed and "tune" it to a particular frequency (note)?
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How wide are critical bands?
I hope this is the most appropriate SE site to ask a question about psychoacoustics.
I don't quite understand critical bands. As far as I know, if two pure tones which frequencies are inside the ...
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Remove audio tracks from multiple MKV files
I've got a multitude of MKV files each containing two audio tracks that correspond to two languages. In each of the files, the English language is the second track and it's the only track I need for ...
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Mixer / Power amp / Decibel Meter setup
I just bought:
A power amplifier (Amazon.com link)
A mixer (Amazon.com link)
Two loudspeakers (Amazon.com link)
A decibel meter (Amazon.com link)
Before buying the decibel meter, the setup was ...
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What type of information can I get from the waveform and the spectrum of audio?
If I have the spectrogram and waveform of a clip of audio what sort of information can I gather by looking at those two things?
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Playing a channel whilst recording another in Sound Forge
Basically, I'm doing some recording in sound forge pro 10. I have 4 channels, 2 of which have the backing track on and the other 2 are to be recorded on. Is there any way that I can play the backing ...
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How To Remove the Vocals from a Song? Basic methods won't work [duplicate]
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Removal of voice from single track in audacity
I have an old song. I need to remove the vocals and get only the music from it. I used Audacity (Effects > Vocal Remover). ...
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Preserve embedded album art when converting from .flac to .ogg
I want to convert my archived .flac library to .ogg for daily use.
Using
find ./ -iname '*.flac' -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 oggenc -q6
on the root music folder and then deleting every .flac (having ...
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How to make a video from a still image and an audio file?
I have an image file (png) and an audio file (aiff). How do I combine them to make a video file that shows the still image and plays the audio file?
Target operating system: either OS X Lion or ...
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Simple free program to add audio to video?
I am looking for a small free tool that will allow me to add some audio to my video. Windows movie maker doesn't seem to work well from some reason.
Any recommendations?
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How do I remove audio from all files in a directory with ffmpeg?
I have a directory full of short video clips in .AVI format, and I want to remove the audio from all of them. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.
I tried this command:
find -name '*.avi' -exec ffmpeg -i {} -an ...
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Vegas Pro: imported m2ts missing audio
I'm editing a clip for my friend's wedding, when I try to import a .m2ts file from my Blu-Ray disk, only the video has been added. seems Vegas doesn't recognize the audio format...
I'm sure the file ...
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How to connect passive speakers and bass bins?
I have 2 x passive kam 1000w (250w RMS) speakers and a Peavy PV 2600 Power Amplifier. The amp is 900 Watts RMS per channel into 4 Ohms and 550 Watts RMS per channel into 8 Ohms.
I would like to ...
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Digital Performer - Copying Between Projects
Is it possible to export an entire chunk/sequence from one Digital Performer project file and import it into another?
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Split audio into many files
I have an mp3 recording that spans many hours. It is just one big file. I would love to split it into dozens or hundreds of individual snippets.
I actually already some most of the time-stamps where ...
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How can I create dubstep-style wobble bass lines in Audacity?
What is the most effective way to produce wobbling bass lines, such as that you might hear in the "dubstep" (a.k.a. techno-bass) genre?
My current idea is to generate a linear sine wave that goes ...
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How should I compare headphones?
I'm finding difficulty in selecting one of these products and I thought you guys could help me better finding the best out of these four headphones .
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Desktop speakers for a MacbookPro? [closed]
I have a reasonably small desk with minimal space behind it, and I am in a reasonably small room. I don't crank music very loud (but once in a while I enjoy something high volume), and I am far more ...
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Synthetic sentence completion
I'm producing a documentary film with several interviews in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and Adobe Audition CS5.5. In several situations I had to cut before the sentence was completed. Is there any way to ...
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How do I convert 5.1 footage to stereo in premiere pro cs 5.5?
Since my camera is recording at 5.1 format, every time I drag footage into a sequence, it automatically creates 5.1 tracks. I'd like to avoid it and convert all the 5.1 tracks to a stereo track. How ...
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Isolate Voice and Reduce Ambient Sounds
I am trying to record voice anywhere. That is why I need a way to isolate the voice and reduce ambient sounds such as cars or trains. Ideally I want to do this with an iPhone, which does not have a ...
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How to find the playing time (length) of a .acc audio file accurately
I need to accurately find the playing time of .aac files. This time is needed to determine the length of a video cut. This is for a GNU/Linux Bash environment (a windows tool which works in wine ...
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Why is 2.0 louder than 5.1? [closed]
I have a 2.1 setup: two front speakers and a sub, fed by a Yamaha receiver (RX-v667), which is fed by my Win7 x64 computer over HDMI (AMD 6950), with MPC-HD as the source player. My receiver's current ...
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Does setting “full-range speakers” duplicate the lower frequencies? [closed]
(Setup: 2.1, Klipsch B-2 bookshelf speakers, BIC PL-200 subwoofer, Yamaha RX-v667 receiver, fed over HDMI)
In Windows 7, in the sound devices configuration setup, there's an option to set ...
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How can I get rid of the annoying background hum on a new Yeti Microphone
I recently purchased a Blue Yeti USB microphone for use in recording screencasts.
I am using Screenflow to record with and while the sound is excellent in quality there is a nasty hum in the ...
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There is static when I export video where there is none in editing (premiere pro)
The problem is that when I export the video, there is static in the beginning of each clip, which goes away after a little while. It's very prominent when there are a lot of quick cuts. In the longer ...
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Camera mounted mic, off camera mic, or audio recorder?
I have a Canon 6D DSLR. It has a monaural microphone input, and a headphone out. So far the audio I've done with the internal mic have been terrible, including either AF noises, image stabilizer ...
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Where can I find samples of piano notes? [duplicate]
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Are there free records of separate piano notes in .wav files for instance?
Does anyone know where I can find a set of .wav samples for each note of a complete piano, for ...
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Creating sound effects for beginners? [closed]
There are sites to find free pre-recorded sound effects.
But how are new SFX created when designing a reality for a scene?
Could you recommend some resources (books, videos, tutorials, etc.) for ...
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Is it possible to separate voices from one mp3 file?
I want to separate 2 or more voices from one audio file,
is there any software to this ?
I have done some googling and seen that the answer is NO in most cases.
But I think at least there should be ...
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Audio Not Playing on Imported Video Files
I a currently editing a video and imported a .avi movie into my After Effects project. I went to check the RAM preview, but there was no sound. I checked the audio preview and there still was no ...
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Recording Multi Channel Audio with Screen Capture
I wish to record 16 channels of analogue audio with 1 channel of video of desktop capture in perfect time sync.
I've tried using a CCTV DVR recording solution but the video proved too low quality for ...
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Equalization basics: How is sample rate frequency related to audio frequency?
How is sample rate frequency related to audio frequency?
For example, say I have an audio file with a sample rate of 44100 Hz, 1 byte per sample (256 different values), and, for simplicity, a single ...
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Can OS X audio preview loop or be replaced by a different playback system that supports looping?
I'm working with single cycle waveforms which don't seem to work with Preview. The stop/start is done before audio is produced. I'd like a tool that offers an improvement on the native playback. ...
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Transcription Methods/Times
I figured I'd leave a question here while I did the manual labor, but what do you find is the best way to transcribe footage?
I'm an editor and the first thing I like to do is create a script of ...
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How should I do Chromakey -video-editing?
I have chromakey -video and I should add a background and audio to it but I am in very starting point. I tried to find an app for iPhone or iPad not finding any good or professional. My friend ...
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Audio normalization tool based on a dynamic calculation of local maximum amplitude
Presumably most audio tools when regarding volume normalization, find the global maximum volume and normalizes the entire audio file based on that value, to avoid clipping.
It sounds very logical, ...
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Audiotrack (for video) - workflow from Ableton Live to Adobe Premiere
I'm creating audio in Ableton Live that will be muxed with edited video footage in Adobe Premiere. The audio is everything from (Foley) effects to background music, and it must be in sync with events ...
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Certain audio tracks not rendering
I'm not sure the best way to explain the scenario so I'll do my best, please don't hesitate to ask if I'm missing something obvious to help build the picture.
My problem is I've edited a video in ...
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Free batch converter/normalizer to/from CAF (Core Audio Format) file
Is there any free tool capable of doing the job?
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What is the scale type called used on Tonematrix?
I am making an application similar to Tonematrix, and I was wondering what scale it uses, and how it generates its sounds. So here's a few questions I need answered that I haven't been able to find ...
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MP3 Podcast Problems… mp3 file format?
I'm having trouble with an audio file.
If you look over at this Ask Different question I submitted, you'll see I was having issues with getting a podcast to work in iTunes. I finally narrowed it ...
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How to display video via audio from a computer
Is there a sound which will create a stable image on a normal television? I ask this because I want to fool a television into playing audio. The problem is that it will not play audio at all without a ...
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How can I encode audio with Nero AAC Encoder using Mac OS X?
The Nero AAC Encoder encoder is far superior sound-wise to libfaac that comes with ffmpeg, but the encoder is only available for Windows. How can I encode using this encoder on Mac OS X?
Other, even ...
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Removal of voice from single track in audacity
Recently I've been recording some game commentary with a friend. We both have our own computers and headsets. Our plans were to swap our voice tracks and edit them in to each others videos, so we'd ...
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Silent Disco Equipment
I get quote from my client to make event with Silent Disco
What is the hardware required for Silent Disco?
Here is some link referral, but I'm looking advise from expertise have done this.
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What's the difference between consumer and pro audio music equipment?
Besides that pro audio equipment is bigger and louder, requires cooling fans, is more rugged, might have different connections, etc.
What's are the practical difference between consumer audio and pro ...
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Where to find free music
I need to put together an documentary/informational video. It's being submitted for a competition, so I don't know if I can use CC-SA or CC-NC-SA works like Magnatune. Where can I find CC-BY licenced ...
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Minimal subtitle leading/lagging difference
Lets start with a theory. Lets say you create subtitles perfectly synchronized with an audio track. Yes, I dont care about hearing impaired people atm, so video track doesnt concern me right now. Then ...
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Input output devices listed as inactive in device set up (Cubase 5)
Totally new to Cubase. I have installed Cubase 5. Before even getting into recording I want to enable audio input output so that I can add some basic presets and play.
I got to know that Audio ...
