Audacity Forum

Okay, I get your point. Wearing headphones allows the speaker to adjust their voice and distance from the microphone and it avoids picking up reverb from the speakers of the computer. Any other advantages? The teacher doesn't hear themselves. It's not like overdubbing or studio recording a song. Th...

Think about how to get the presenter to wear headphones and make all that echo management distortion vanish. You will find it's almost impossible to "clean up." This was a doctor who appeared on an MSNBC news show a couple of days ago. Screen Shot 2021-01-27 at 1.10.19 PM.png His voice was...

You can't easily record both sides of a Skype, Zoom or other chat connection. So no, what you did is perfectly normal. It is recommended that you use the company-supplied recording services. Both Skype and Zoom have them. That's the best and most reliable way other than a full-on broadcast setup. Fa...

It's good to avoid extremes of volume correction.

What's the microphone and how is it connected?

Koz

============================================ Caution. If you're new at this, shoot a test or as many as needed to stamp out the errors and mistakes. There's just nothing like accidentally destroying an interview with the governor of your state. ============================================ can I mix ...

So we're taking the part of a General Radio test generator and Hewlett-Packard analyzer.

We should be careful with that because those two are famous for truth and stability. That's pretty much the last thing home computers are known for.

Koz

myself on the Yeti and the google call I made It's nearly impossible to record your live microphone and a chat call at the same time on one machine. Google Voice, Skype, and Zoom are actively fighting you. It's their job to maintain perfect, total, absolute control of the computer sound pathways at...

when switching to my headset's microphone it works

Without knowing model numbers, I'm guessing the headset is giving you your voice from a headset live mix and not Audacity sound management. That falls into the category of getting your voice from the device, not the computer.

Koz

There's two latencies. Recording Latency is when you sing (for example) to your backing track and the new, fresh recording comes out in perfect alignment with the backing track. That's the one you set in Devices > Latency. The second is Machine Latency. That's the amount of time the machine takes to...

Audacity doesn't apply any corrections, filters, or effects during recording, so it's a safe bet there's something standing between your headset and Audacity. Windows likes to apply both recording and playback corrections, so you might start there. I think Windows calls them "enhancements."...