Audacity Forum

Are you overdubbing? Are you singing to the backing track and want to make a mixed song later? We wrote instructions to do that. http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_multi_track_overdubs.html There are special settings and adjustments in Audacity so you can get clean tracks for late...

Audacity can open up a lot of different found files, but if you find one that doesn't work, you may need to install the FFMpeg plug-in. That expands Audacity's dance card to a large number of different files.

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Koz

This is because I have an instrumental of a song that is identical to the version with vocals except for the fact that the instrumental version has an extra guitar melody Are they MP3 sound files? Or iTunes download sound files? These sound files get their tiny efficiency by carefully leaving out s...

I did notice an inconsistency in the equipment list. Computer Audio Interface M-Audio Fast Track USB 2 Preamp TubePREv2 PreSonus Mono Tube Mic Is that the M-Audio with the XLR connection on the front? Screen%20Shot%202017-12-25%20at%2014.31.38.png I'm not sure those were meant to be plugged into eac...

right and left channels are independent

That's what I'd be doing.

I will focus on the cartridge when I return this week.

You may be the once every two or three decade cartridge harness failure.

Koz

Audacity is most often used for production on work made by the user. AudioBook reading, musical performances, etc. I suspect the course is probably assuming you already have works you bought (or performed) if you're interested in this kind of production. I get most of my music from iTunes download a...

There is a sillier one. Is the plug in back of the computer all the way in? I have a soundcard that appears perfectly normal and it works perfectly as long as you get the cable shoved all the way in. If I don't push it all the way in (and it's easier to get this wrong than you think), the sound does...

What is the microphone and who made it? Who made the mixer and USB interface and what are the model numbers? Most mixers, even the smaller ones have a volume indicator. As long as you keep the volume meter happy, everything in the system should work. There are meters in Audacity, too. In a live reco...

And just like that, I'm out.

You need somebody with intimate knowledge of what Audacity is thinking about while it's recording in Windows. Having a portion of the program fail without a formal crash is most unusual.

Koz

"error opening sound device" In the case of Overdubbing, Audacity has to play the backing track to your headphones perfectly and it has to record your voice absolutely correctly at the exact same time. If either of those actions has problems, Audacity will throw that error. I have direct ...