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Your computer is trying to cancel out your music because it thinks the music is "noise."

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_ ... hancements

Koz

That usually means your backing track is in the wrong place. You can select it and shuffle it to the right until the message stops (like the note says), but much better is launch a "clean" Audacity and import the track again. That could also be an oblique way of telling you the Overdubbing...

I knew about acx-check, but not rms-normalize. If the goal is submission to ACX, the tool collection is indicated. The steps were tested as a suite and there is a warning to take them in order and not leave anything out. Each tool depends on the results of the tools that came before. For example, t...

did exactly what I needed!

Which one? There were two programs in that post. We're here to aid each other. This isn't a help desk.

Koz

One person's audio level is fine, the second one is really low.

Don't run off. How did you record the show? Is this a Skype recording?
Koz

Which rev is this? Koz ;nyquist plug-in ;version 3 ;type process ;name "Level Speech..." ;action "Leveling speech dynamics..." ;; LevelSpeech.ny by Steve Daulton (www.easyspacepro.com). March 2014 ;; Released under terms of the GNU General Public License version 2: ;; http://www....

I generally use the default system monitor but any recommendations?

Not in Linux, no.
Koz

I installed Audacity and used it.

And a new microphone and device driver software? Does the driver software say good for Windows 10?

Koz

We need to wait for a senior elf for that, but it would be good to know which Audacity and where did you get it? Here?

http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/

The system is much more likely to become unstable from a bad plugin or add-on.

Koz

I was about to tell you to open the original and export a WAV (Microsoft) sound file, but you can't do that if the original is two mono files, or much worse, two stereo files.

What was the original format? I would restart the machine before I opened the main show, now the only backup.

Koz