Audio refers broadly to the information, be it acoustic or electronic, entering, traversing, or exiting some medium.
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What's the difference between a vocoder and a harmonizer?
As a follow-up to this question: What is the difference between Autotune and a Vocoder?, let's get into the nitty-gritty about vocoders and harmonizers.
For example, in Imogen Heap's famous Hide and ...
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How can I combine various audio inputs into 1 optical ouput to feed into my surround sound?
I have a setup in my house where I have 1 surround sound in a room with 4 things connected to it w/ optical audio and 1 with the standard red/white cables. What I want to do is be able to do is listen ...
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I want to connect my iPod using the headset jack to a portable PA system and am worried about phantom power
I have a Liberty 4500 portable PA system and a headset plug to male XLR adapter.
I am afraid the phantom power from the Liberty PA system will fry my iPod.
How can I prevent it from happening?
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Why does does my audio go out of sync every time I reencode either the audio or video stream?
I have a video in an AVI container. The video is H264 AVC and the audio is VBR MP3. (I don't know if this is relevant— I recorded it in from an analog video capture card, from a VHS. The ...
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How can I set PulseAudio to use convolution
I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 and PulseAudio.
I made impulse to correct bass response on my speakers and would like to use it globally.
I can set Jack through jack-convolve plugin to use my impulse, but as ...
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Send audio linux -> mac
I have a Mac mini connected to my TV and sound system. I would like to use it as an audio 'server' in the sense that it will receive network audio and play it to the speakers.
My client is a linux ...
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What is the title for someone knowledgeable in all that is related to sound?
I'm basically looking for a title that is more broad than an Audio Engineer.
Basically, I'm looking for a title that would cover a:
Musician (of their preferred instrument and/or more);
Recording ...
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extract specific frequencies from audio
As you can see from the spectrograph, there are two melodic lines in this excerpt. These two voices are played by different instruments. Is there a tool (preferably free) that will allow me to extract ...
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Does this sound wave of a voice-over track look normal?
I got some voice over files today from a new studio, and my co-worker was confused as to why the sound wave looks like this.
His concern is that the wave should be pretty even above and below the -∞ ...
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Soundcloud Dropbox linked to Ableton/Max4live
I want to build a self-generating audio installation with Ableton Live 8 & Max4Live which is fed by audio snippets via a constantly updating Soundcloud dropbox.
Basically, I want ...
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Are there free records of separate piano notes in .wav files for instance?
I'm trying to find some piano sound bank -for my childish experiments with sound - the most desired form is of course a number of .wav files, each one corresponding to a piano key - being a record of ...
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How do I record audio and video screen-capture for Tutorials on DAWs with ScreenFlow?
My question might be a bit too specific, but essentially I'm trying to create my own tutorial material of How-To's in Propellerhead Reason 6. I'm using ScreenFlow as my Screen-recording software.
So ...
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Garageband export volume issue.
Alright, so I have Garageband and Soundbooth. I am composing sounds for a video game in Garageband and have an explosion in the project. I have the volume so that when I play it in Garageband it plays ...
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Converting voice into modem sounds
I'd like to record my voice and apply some effects on it. The final result should remind the listener of phone lines or some modem sounds, but only the melody and rhythm of the language should be kept ...
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“Subtracting” specific audio using an Isolated track from the same mix.
I have an audio file (Music + Vocals) and I have an instrumental (Music Only). Is there a program or some way I can take the music file and subtract the instrumental leaving only the vocals? (Full ...
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Why does one side of my headphones always break?
So basically, I've brought several headphones. Within a few days, one of them almost always fails for some reason. It happens for different brands of headphones (both ones that cover the entire ear ...
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Appropriate background music for a webapp screencast
I'm making a screencast tutorial of a webapp. It's primarily boring.
Can anyone recommend an appropriate soothing background music from the FCP audio content?
This will be my first time using Final ...
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What are the most common text-based music/audio notation systems?
I am trying to find a good all-text (type able) musical notation system that already exists* and that has some usage and credibility.
Ideally, such a system would allow very simple musical ...
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Transcoding DV Without Desyncs
I've recorded DV video from my camcorder over FireWire, and it plays fine in OSX. However, when trying to transcode it to H.264 for editing and uploading it to YouTube, the audio desyncs. I've been ...
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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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What is the best way to make music play more slowly? (at any arbitrary speed)
And what is the best program to use for that?
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Extracting conversations from a long WMA-File
I have a few wma-files all about 2h long each.
I was going around with a microphone interviewing people. I did not turn the recording off in order to not miss anything. Now the problem is filtering ...
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Can opening closed speaker cabinets for service affect the sound?
I have two pairs of speakers that could do with opening them up to investigate problems--one decades-old set of Celestion hi-fi speakers that has developed a rattle, the other a set of M-Audio ...
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What are some disadvantages of audacity?
I've been using Audacity for a while and it seems like the perfect recording studio: free, open source, great features, easy to use, its easy to fall in love with. However, I want to have a more ...
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An open source sound editor, but not Audacity?
I am looking for open source/free software for casual sound editing.
I've tried audacity, I know it's capable tool but really I dont like the interface.
Tried snd, can't get it to work.
I am looking ...
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How to eliminate guitar amp hum (software and hardware amps)
There's nothing quite like the sound of a guitar playing into a warm tube amp with the pre turned up high and the post turned down. There's also nothing quite like the hum you get out of one of these ...
