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This microphone has a lot of different ways you can power it and you do have to pick one of them. It's a powered microphone. See above. Make sure the sample rates (44100, 48000, etc) match all the way through the system. Start with 44100 even if you want to try higher sampling for effects processing...

I'm using a Blue Snowball ...to do what? Podcast? Sing? It's not unusual for Windows to have conference and communication processing to force your voice to be loud and dense, sometimes whether you want it to be or not. It can also have environment and echo processing. http://manual.audacityteam.org...

I'm gonna wait until I decide whether I need to take the turntable back to Best Buy. Don't go crazy yet. Let's see if it's a simple setting somewhere. With the older Audacity 2.1.2 it wasn't unusual for the two digital sample rates to get out of step and cause either too fast or too slow. It should...

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Koz

One note. Chris hates processing a show that starts with dead zero-flat line. So leave or put Something at the beginning even if you have to go back later and cut it off just to give Chris something to chew on. I usually miss the last edit on purpose and leave some stuff (room tone, traffic noise) h...

Right then. I ran a segment of the show through Chris's Compressor set for (approximately) US Broadcast compression. It makes your show louder and denser and reduces the volume difference between the two performers. Attached. https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/chriss-dynamic-compressor-plugin-for-auda...

How far away from the microphone are you? There is a sweet spot for microphone spacing. Too far away and you sound like you're recording from across the parking lot. To close and you get a whole pile of problems: P-Popping, breath whishes, ticking (my personal favorite), etc. etc., and the sound of ...

I can't listen right this second—I will shortly, but you have the exact opposite problem that most people have. Most people set up a Yeti in a bare room or office and then are amazed when their podcast sounds like they recorded it in a bathroom. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/EchoSample.mp3 Th...

microphone in another device

We strongly discourage ducking behind fuzzy words.

What device?

Koz

audio-technica turntable Which one? AT makes different ones. Unfortunately it is playing the record way too fast. Do you really mean: After I record the record, the Audacity Playback is way too fast? If the actual record is spinning too fast, then the player may be broken. We'll dig you out of some...