Audacity Forum

Audacity is something of a slave to what the computer is doing. Audacity doesn't talk directly to the device or service. The down side of this is your show gets filtered through all the existing drivers, plugins and services. What are you recording? What's running at the same time as your recording?...

I was going to attach a sample of the noise

You should do that anyway. There are some noises that leave fingerprints and are easy to identify.

Koz

Do the playback (speaker icon) sound meters shift back and forth?
Koz

If I assign 1 mono track to the left channel, it's still in the middle!

Describe your sound system. Does it do that when you plug in headphones?

Koz

It's a nasty surprise. Windows 10 is not a Windows upgrade. It's a new OS and software has to be written or certified for it. Some software happens to accidentally work most of the time, but those can be time bombs.

Koz

Let us know how it comes out. Most "machine voices" happen when the machine either puts the wrong tonal inflection in the voice, or leaves too many out. Both are red flags to your ears and terrifically hard to fix. I very recently sat through a "news broadcast" voiced by a machin...

If the machine noises significantly change over the course of the show, you're dead. Effect > Noise Reduction only works on noises that don't change.

Koz

Do the remaining voices have to be theatrically perfect? Can they sound like a bad cellphone because you're going to transcribe the work later? Assuming the machine noise doesn't change over the course of the show, you can use Effect > Noise Reduction at a very high reduction number (24dB). This sho...

You are bucking a lesser known problem as well. No producer I ever met will produce a vocal without "fine tuning" the original backing track a bit. It's a medical condition affecting all producers called the DiQuithitt Effect from its discoverer Simon DiQuithitt. Yet another reason they're...

I'm using FLAC files for both. They're FLAC when you got them, but FLAC is not a widely used format. Where did they come from? You can totally try it yourself. Open both songs one above the other. Audacity will try to play them at the same time (and get really loud). Select the bottom track by clic...