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I did a Magic Marker® doodling on napkin about the mixer setup. Searching.

Koz

That was the complaint about Zoom recording. Everybody has Zoom Voice. On the up side, I understand Zoom will, on request, record all branches of a Zoom call separately. That leaves you to individually correct and filter each branch rather than have one feed with everybody jammed into it. No, we can...

So far these are all symptoms of the computer not being able to keep up.

Koz

There is a section of the forum for multi-channel. https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=38626 In order to get maximum compatibility and customers, mixer makers configure multi-channel as groups of stereo. You're much less likely to send the mixer back if it does something . I thin...

There is one point that can make any connection sound better. Put all the participants on headphones. Don't need special microphones or heavy soundproofing although those are nice. Just climb into headphones before the connection. Instantly, Zoom doesn't have to do echo suppression and feedback canc...

Anyone already shaking their heads?! Holding up hand. Do I need a separate standalone recorder That's how I did it and that's how several of the communications companies recommend you do it. Everybody wants the One-Button-Push solution and those actually do exist. Use Skype in Hands-Free mode, put ...

You don't use iCloud? I'm sure that's going to catch up with me, but I do have a couple of circumstances. I'm a dot-com. So any time I want to post something for universal later use, my web site is right there waiting. That's all those "kozco" postings you see. https://www.kozco.com/pix/H...

The crackling only occurs during DAW playback

Ding!

Are you using wireless headphones and/or cloud storage? Audacity hates both of those.

Koz

backing music slows down noticeably. Backing music? Are you overdubbing? Singing or playing to a backing track? The setup for overdubbing has you making a plain, ordinary recording, and then a plain ordinary playback of the backing track before you try to combine them. Did that work OK? You can loo...

There is a sister forum posting from someone who is trying to cure the noise and distortion on their production. The production is perfect and clear, but they can't hear it. It can get much worse. If you're intent on Overdubbing or Sound-On-Sound, you'll find that Perfect Overdubbing is only possibl...