Audacity Forum

You may be a victim of manufacturer's bias. My sister has an integrated amplifier whose Tape-Out is designed to plug into the same manufacturer's recording system— and nothing else. Also recommended if you have an analog turntable, is the stand-alone ART USB Phono Plus. Dedicated cartridge matching,...

We need it longer than two seconds. Record for ten seconds and include two seconds of room tone (background noise) silence.

Koz

I have to unplug the connection to the computer from the Focusrite unit, plug it in again and jiggle it until I hear a little static in the earphones Reading that again. Jiggling a USB cable to make it work is broken. Either the cable itself (unlikely, if it's new) or the connection to the computer...

Well not entirely, sometimes

Exactly correct. The effect and tools depend on how the song or performance was mastered. If the mastering engineer added background stereo echo, the voice will vanish and leave the background.

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/MysteryTrain3.mp3

Koz

On Windows you can use VB-CABLE And you know this because you use it regularly? I can do a Google search, too, but we know from multiple user postings that it's just not that easy. If you don't use one of the hardware techniques, you're at the mercy of Skype's background configuration changes and s...

Record a 20 second voice test.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/Test ... _Clip.html

Post it on the forum. Instructions are in that page.

So far we've been flying blind (or deaf) by not hearing you.

Koz

I thought we lost you. Is that a Scarlett Solo? That is recommended for single microphone use, but the pre-baked package I saw had a 2i2. Pictures are good. From the Focusrite instructions, the knob turns green at the lowest normal voice volume and red at the highest. Can you make the knob turn red?...

??? I don't understand. Audacity can't split a mixed performance into individual voices, instruments or sounds. The two effects called out above can sometimes, under some conditions, remove a lead vocal from a stereo song or separate a vocal from the rest of the instruments. But it can't give you a...

It's worth investigating additional Windows settings. One Windows trick is to automatically add 20dB of volume boost to everything it thinks is a microphone, and Windows thinks everything is a "Microphone." It got this idea from the almost universal complaint that microphones are too quiet...

Did you try the mastering suite on your existing track?

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 64&t=96103

I think I said up the post, you're not that far off and there's a possibility you might not need any further help at all.

Koz