Audacity Forum

Does DropBox have hot links into your computer? You may have hit it. Audacity doesn't always get along with integrated network services. It may look like a friendly DropBox folder on your desktop, but it's really a network shortcut and may not act like a standard Windows folder. For example, file tr...

Are you a bot? It seems like you are posting random comments from other people's postings and they don't make sense. You can't use speakers and a microphone at the same time when you're overdubbing. That will not give you a clean performance. It will give you a distorted recording with echoes of the...

In general, if the Audacity cursor will not move during recording, it means Audacity is not receiving data from the external device. We have to be able to build your system in our imaginations to think about solutions. I've done this many times and I can't think of a way you can record and play, but...

Which Windows?

Koz

Last one. You can, in fact, correct a timing mis-match in post, but it's not latency then. You would use the Time Shift Tool (two sideways arrows) to shove the late track sideways so it matches the earlier one. http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/time_shift_tool.html If you need to do that, then you ...

There must be a trick here? There's more than one. Overdubbing features two different latencies. Recording latency is the setting that Audacity needs so it sends you the backing track in perfect time so your performance appears on it's new track also in perfect time. That's the one you set with Edi...

And you can tell ahead of time if you have noises in the desk or floor with a mechanics stethoscope. In English, that's a screwdriver. You press the handle against your ear and the blade against the table or floor. Mechanics have been using this trick for ages to find bad engine parts—with the engin...

In larger systems, vibration suppression happens up near the microphone. That's the spider of rubber bands. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/AKGShockMount-500T.jpg Screen Shot 2017-12-17 at 13.39.02.png http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/ChrisPrattEmmet.jpg You don't have to do it up there, but it...

Are you using the little three leg stand that comes with the 2020USB? Tripod desk stand with folding legs for secure and easily portable tabletop use It doesn't say anything about shock mount or desk/floor vibration suppression. There's an easy way to provide that. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix...

If you do the diagnostic thing, "slate" what you're doing as you go. "This is my desk lamp." _______________. "This is my ceiling lamp." _______________. "This is the closet door." _________________.

Koz