Audacity Forum

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Koz

I don't know about recording live like that, but it's easy to convert in post.

Drop-down menu to the left of the stereo track > Spit Stereo to Mono.

Scroll down or click the graphic.

Koz

As an experiment, start a normal recording and then turn your headphone volume to zero and then bring it back. Keep talking normally. Did the ghost voices go away?

Koz

But I did save out the second session as a wav file by itself. That is the step that saves you from outright dismissal of your project. People try to do this trick with MP3 or other compressed formats and the compression distortion dooms the project immediately. WAV doesn't have compression distort...

various mics

What mics by maker and part number?
Which Audacity 3-number version are you using?

Koz

I managed to avoid "ugrading" so far. The system upgrade appeared in some surprising places. You do need to pay attention.

Koz

If the Audiobox was sending bad data, the first track would be bad. That's what's so darn much fun about this problem. The symptoms never settle into one set of conditions.

As an experiment, reset the whole world for 44100 rather than 48000 and try overdubbing.

Koz

Yes, 48000 is the video sample rate. Most music software can deal with both that and 44100 with no trouble and most video editors "know" how to convert. Your a/d converter has to be able to handle whatever sample rate you choose and there's even something about certain conditions where Win...

Is there a way to set the recording speed Don't get all excited yet. It's a common error to fixate on one aspect of the problem repeatedly and not solve anything. Are 2, 3 and 4 the same length? That if, is you play your music without the guide track, everything sounds OK (given the pitch is wrong)...

Is track 2 the correct duration? Do you and the click track get to the end of the song at the same time? What happens on tracks 3 and 4? SOLO the guide track so you only hear that in overdub mode. This error doesn't easily fall into known failures or conditions. Normally, the computer can't keep up ...