[sdiy] Audacity 1.2 (metering)

[Paul Higgins]

Hi,

There's a drop-down menu for every audio track (or stereo pair) that 
allows you to see input by waveform, dB, etc.  To be honest, I don't 
use it for recording, just editing and restoration--which I've really 
been into lately, cleaning up some 40+ year old open-reel tapes.  There 
is supposed to be some online help that's available from the on-screen 
menus, but I haven't used it yet.  You could probably get your answer 
with the online help.

Audacity is pretty cool as an editor; its default recording format is 
32-bit floating-point.  (Of course you need the hardware to take 
advantage of that).  And you get free MP3 ripping (LAME library add-on).

-PRH

On Tuesday, March 2, 2004, at 01:39 PM, simon at austarmetro.com.au wrote:

> Does it have an input level meter?
>
> I tried it a while ago, and couldn't find an input level meter, so had 
> no way of knowing how hot the levels were that I was recording.
>
> May have overlooked something.
>
> Does this version, or earlier versions have this?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
> Canberra
> AUSTRALIA


Paul R. Higgins
email: higg0008 at tc.umn.edu