Audacity Forum

This is where you get busted for a suspiciously quiet voice shoot. Remember several forum elves commended on that.

Koz

Are you wanting a file before encoding? Before you do anything to it. That's why this request usually has to be shot apart from other, older works. You should post clean, unprocessed work. Don't adjust anything before Export. No filters, effects, adjustments, tuning or processing unless otherwise t...

I wouldn't bother with Lenovo. Chances are excellent this is not a computer problem, even though that's how it looks. That and the split nature of the problems(s) makes this challenging. Let's do "out the door" mode. Let's say you're going to read on the old machine until you get the new o...

Many larger Desktop systems have a full soundcard and we may have identified the problem. They have two inputs, not only one. They can have a Pink Microphone-In and a Blue Stereo line-in. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/soundCardFinal2.jpg If you cross them by accident, the microphone will dr...

It would do a lot of good to tell us what the microphone is, how it's connected and a little about your computer. How are you using it? On your third podcast and suddenly it stopped working? Music? Voice? You didn't say whether or not your microphone even showed up in Audacity. Audacity checks for n...

Run through your sound channel again. Scarlett 2i2s come in first and second generation. There are two different Spark microphones. When you're doing your woof test, do the lights on 2i2 knobs turn red? I think they're supposed to if the system is close to overloading. I expect you to have two blue ...

a reasonable amount of isolation is possible.

How?

Koz

Does that problem go away if you record in stereo? Give that a shot. You may be one of those lucky people that has to record in stereo, delete one track and convert to mono later.

If that's it, then that reduces us down to straight voice quality and ACX issues.

Koz

How complex is your music system? If you're playing to built-in speakers (MacBook Pro) or the headphone socket (Mac Mini), I expect it to work right out of the gate. If you're playing to a complex USB, FireWire, Thunderbolt, WiFi or Bluetooth music system, you may need to find out if your devices ar...

Audacity checks for new devices when it starts. So either restart Audacity with the device connected, or Transport > Rescan.

Koz