The second one is more precise, but both are accurate to their level of measurement
490 MB is 1024 KB, each of which is 1024 bytes, so it's actually 513,802,240 B. 491 MB is 514,850,816, so your value is being rounded down to 490
Are you hearing phasing issues with either technique?
Generally, with guitars, you're not going to get significant phasing. I think physics-wise to do that you'd need a very clean tone and lots of held notes. The sort of arrangement where you're not likely to be stacking up a lot of takes anyway.
I believe the general rule is something like: if the two mikes are twice as far from the source as each other (or more) then phase shouldn't be an issue
You might be experiencing the proximity effect. The closer you get to a dynamic microphone, the higher its bass response will be. So there will be less high-end volume, and it can sound dull.
(You're correct that this would happen with any dynamic)
So step 1 would be sing/speak further back...
The DAW software receives a digital signal from your input device (whether that's a mixer, your PCs onboard audio, or an audio interface).
Whether or not the signal is nicer, richer, or deeper has little to do with the software. Unless you add effects to it, the software will simply save...
Bare minimum? 1: Stick a 57 maybe 6" above the beater head of the kick and point it more or less straight down (maybe angled a little towards the snare)
A slightly less ridiculous minimum? 2: Condensers placed somewhere in the room perpendicular to each other.
Really tho, I'd recommend 4: Two...
Yeah, the big issues with an unofficial version in the windows store would be legal rather than technical. (The code is F/OSS, but the logo and name are trademarks; plus a fork available in the windows store without the source code might violate GPL?)
Huh. Can't say I've ever had that problem.
Is that an official fork? I saw it in the windows store (along with a lot of other trademark-questionable apps)
Can you post some examples?
Without listening, the obvious solution is to build a simple isolation booth: hang some quilts, coats and other heavy materials around the mic.
You probably need to update your version of audacity to one that came out after the patent expired. What version are you seeing when you go to Help > About Audacity... ?
MP3 will get you the greatest reduction in file size, but it will also reduce quality. There are a few other algorithms available (AAC, Ogg-Vorbis, wma), but they're all fundamentally similar.
Flac can get you about 50% file size reduction with no data loss.
Ohhhh. You mean like these things?
That'd be OpenAI Jukebox then. I guess if I wanted to do that I'd join their discord.
Of course, if you're just talking about reverse-engineering someone else's song and making something that sounds similar (but perhaps not in a legally actionable way)...
So you're talking about using AI to fill in instrumentation?
That would be Band in a Box (or a sample pack or a MIDI collection - Toontrack is having their summer sale right now; lots of drum options there)
Or are you talking about extracting stems from a final mix when you can't get a hold of...
Oh, you might be looking at the wrong band. According to Discogs, there was a UK Verbal Assault who basically did nothing but this comp: https://www.discogs.com/artist/399747-Verbal-Assault-2?type=Appearances&subtype=Compilations&filter_anv=0