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There's two ways to get there.

Go (top desktop menu bar) > Utilities > Audio MIDI Setup.
Or Go > Applications > (scroll down) Utilities > Audio MIDI Setup.


Koz

You're intended to use the Behringer as playback. That's the only way you can get zero latency monitoring—listening to yourself without delay or echo. If you're in Windows 10, try a cold shutdown. Hold Shift while you shut down Windows. Then start it normally. That should reset all the Windows servi...

It's on the front of the 2i2. I assume that's where your headphones are plugged in. That's where they should be plugged in for overdubbing.

Koz

Audacity by itself will only open and manage a handful of different sound formats. To get the whole rainbow, you have to install both the Lame and FFMpeg software.

Scroll down.

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

Koz

It is not an external hub.

I didn't think it was. All these problems seem to start when you implanted this internal hub into your system.

Koz

I've tried using the noise gate plug-in, but it doesn't have any sort of effect on it.

Right. Because the noise is happening on the playback side, not the record side.

Try turning off Direct Monitor.

Koz

Recording latency is adjustable and there is a little dance you can do to make sure it's OK, but there's no good reason for it to change. I would probably begin with a simple shutdown, wait and start. That's different from Restart. Actually shut it down. The Recording Latency adjustment takes into a...

Sorry about your foot.

What happens if you take the hub out?

Koz

Running everything at -1 is probably fine. If you think you made a damaged MP3, open it in a fresh Audacity and see if you get the red lines in the blue waves. Set View > [X] Show Clipping. MP3 is the only one of the three that's subject to "magic" volume shifting. The other two are perfec...

If you got a correction process that works and you're happy with the sound, that's what counts.

Koz