Audacity Forum

I have many Behringer devices and they all just plug in and work. What do you have?

Koz

I set up a multi-track show as an experiment and I too, got a screen full of horizontal lines apparently stuck that way. I and I suspect the poster would have sacrificed several family members to find a tool called Zoom Vertical. Neither of us experienced Expand All Tracks in spite of diligent searc...

I don't do it quite that way. I drag an iTunes show onto the desktop where it settles in to a stand-alone sound file.

Then I open it in Audacity. Right-Click or Control-Click on the file > Open With > Audacity.

If you do that, which part fails?

Koz

The forum elves can handle that.
Koz

Note that even with your Zero Latency Device, you can still get vocal echoes by having an Audacity setting wrong. Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Recording. [X] Overdubbing should be the only thing selected. Also, if you really like Recording from YouTube or other on-line content, those Windows sett...

We have some experience recording much longer audio products using ProTools We can only comment on the info we get in the question. Most people don't have ProTools. You should be able to produce five minute voice-over segments with no trouble given you already have editing experience. It's just fin...

Exactly correct. I couldn't find the info on that fast enough and I'm not a Windows elf.

Koz

That's machine latency and you're stuck with it. If you want to do Perfect Overdubbing, where you hear yourself as well as the backing, rhythm or music track, you have to use equipment or devices that offer "Zero Latency Monitoring." As a rule, you can't listen to the computer. Some USB mi...

You can hot-key create a label while you're recording.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/label_tracks.html

Koz

If I pan both mics to center they both record

That just means you squirted a little of the mute right mic into the active left channel.

clearly heard on the monitors and headphones

Which are plugged in where? I assume the mixer sound meters flash independently with the two microphones?

Koz