Audacity Forum

Which Olympus? a natively recorded mp3 file on the Olympus gives more options with regards to what one can do with the file. Such as? This pathway is not recommended because no matter what you do, you will be double compressing the MP3 and doubling the sound damage. It's one of the reasons we strong...

Yes, totally. That's the reason you're using WAV instead of MP3. You can also Save the work as an Audacity Project. If you do that, you can open up the show exactly where you left it with all the tracks intact. Note Projects do not save UNDO. So once you do that and close Audacity, you can't go back...

Are you overdubbing—playing music to yourself or to a backing track?

Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Recording.

Do you have Overdubbing selected?

Koz

This is a good choice for single microphone recording either spoken word or playing a musical instrument. If you buy a higher end stereo interface (two 3-pin XLR connectors), there's no such thing as simple mono recording. You can't ever record to the right (bottom channel) and if you force mono, it...

Right. So it should be possible to set Audacity to record Mono. That will turn out to be one blue soundwave which will play to both sides of your headphones. It should say Mono on the info panel on the left. In the sound settings, upper panel next to the microphone symbol, select the interface name ...

Focusrite makes a bunch of stuff. Focusrite Scarlett Solo?

Koz

There's another one of these I haven't thought about in a long time. Do you use Quick Start? Nobody liked it when Windows took forever to start, so Microsoft made it snappy by not checking everything. One of things it stopped checking is memory. You might look for start up preferences. Also, when yo...

I know I'm the only one who does this, but your symptoms map perfectly to "running out of computer." Are you running out of space on your drives? Doesn't have to be the drive running Audacity, either. If any drive connected to the computer is running out of resources, it can cause real-tim...

I only have one mic input (3 pin) on my USB interface,

That was a hint for you to tell us what the interface is. If you do that, we may be able to tell you best practices for using it.

Koz

Yes. Nobody is expecting screamed dialog to sound like anything anyway, so you win.

It's not often somebody comes up with a trick I haven't heard of.

[Writing that down]

Koz