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Thanks alot koz, that makes perfect sense, now that I'm thinking in terms of phase cancellation. I would have never thought one could get phase cancellation using only one mic. I was also thinking that if the 1/4 inch main out accepted TRS, then it would send a left and a right. After much thought o...

ahhh, it appears I've unknowingly wandered into the exciting and elusive world of phase cancellation! After doing your test and thinking about it for a few minutes, I openned up one of the projects, highlighted the lower of the 2 stereo channels, and applied the "invert" effect. Everything sounds gr...

I used a Behringer XM8500 microphone, plugged into the XLR jack on a channel on the mixing board. I then ran a TRS cable out of the left "main out" and into the microphone jack with a 1/4 to mini stereo adapter. The mixer manual says the 1/4 inch main out for the left channel can accept a 1/4 inch T...

Haha I smell a fix coming on! When I go to Tracks>Stereo track to mono, as you said, I still get nothing but noise through the mixer and headphones, but now I get the same through computer speakers. Nothing but the noise. Undo, and the music comes through again.

I am fairly new to Audacity, and recently recorded a practice with the band I play in. Let me give you a little background info before getting to the problem. I don't have any kind of multi-track recorder, so I used a single microphone connected to my mixing board, then ran out to a laptop with Auda...