[Trombone-l] Audacity Setup for Multi-Track Tutorial

[Raymond Horton]

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Raymond Horton
Composer, Arranger
Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) United Methodist Church
Retired Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra, 1971-2016
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On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 12:35 AM John Cather via Trombone-l <
trombone-l at trombonelist.org> wrote:

> The main thing is to measure the latency in your system so Audacity can be
> set to automatically compensate for it. Otherwise your tracks will not be
> in sync with each other. Mine was off by more than a quarter second.
>
> Basically you record a click from a metronome for a few measures and then
> record a second track with that first one playing back through your system.
> (You can also have Audacity generate a click track under the tab: Generate
> and Rhythm track and play that and record). I literally hang my playback
> headphones on the recording microphone to do that. You are recording the
> clicks from the first track onto the second one. They will probably be out
> of sync. Then you zoom way in on your time scale at the top and measure the
> distance between the same click on the first track to the second track, in
> milliseconds. Just subtract the two numbers whatever they are. Mine was a
> difference of 283 milliseconds. Knowing that-In Audacity preferences, the
> first tab is Devices. The playback device and the recording device should
> show what you are using as an interface. For me, it is a Steinberg. Then
> below that is a window for latency compensation. I set mine at -283
> milliseconds. Now, every track I record will be in sync with all the others.
>
> There are a ton of things you can do with audacity and a few you can’t.
> One very cool thing is that you can change the tempo of anything
> recorded-under the tab “Effect”. I have my students use that to slow down
> fast and difficult passages so they can practice them slowly enough to get
> it right before they speed up.
>
> You can do an auto punch-in which is very cool, but no auto punch out. You
> have to stop it manually.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Thanks
> John Cather
> John at CatherMusic.com
>
>
>
>
> > On Sep 3, 2020, at 5:27 PM, Daryl Burch via Trombone-l <
> trombone-l at trombonelist.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hey, fellow listers;
> > Hope all’s well with you and yours! Awhile back somebody sent around a
> video tutorial on how to setup Audacity for multi-track trombone recording.
> Does anybody remember who made that? Possible send me/us the link to that
> video?
> >
> > Got a new rig. And have new downloads of Audacity. And have to reset
> everything.
> >
> > TIA for your help!
> >
> > Cheers!
> > -D-
> >
> > Daryl Burch
> > E: daryl at burchinteractive.com ✦ C: 707-338-8338
> >
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