Audacity Forum

The keyboard "P" key doesn't work? P to pause the recording and P again to start. Are we talking about pausing recording while you flip the record over? You don't have to do that. You can keep right on recording and take the long gap out in simple audio editing. Alternately, don't pause at...

No, but the manual way to do this is the Envelope Tool. You can draw on the screen right where you want the volume to go and when. http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/envelope_tool.html You don't have to do surgical word-by-word construction of the background music. And just because I get the distinc...

@Mautlan
You stumped the band.

There's no reason for a Lame export to do that.

Have you tried a hard Win10 reset?

Koz

We don't know what the poster was recording. They didn't say, but the symptoms are perfect for someone trying to record and not knowing about the Windows processing. They did say they were on a laptop and most of them have no Stereo Line-In. So when the poster writes back and fills in what they were...

As a fuzzy rule Audacity can't split a mixed performance into individual instruments or voices.

You can try Effect > Vocal Removal and Isolation. It's designed for voices, but sometimes you can get lucky.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/voca ... ation.html

Koz

a recording platform. That doesn't tell us enough. Describe the studio. Include makers and part numbers. Describe the pathway. Swapping a new microphone in doesn't change the behavior. We wouldn't know because you didn't tell us what the original microphone was. I've attached a sample of me saying ...

Cool. So what's the original problem?
Koz

I bet Lame doesn't like out of phase music very much.

Koz

Windows 10 works beautifully here with music. Maybe playback, but recording is different. Since Vista, Windows recording defaults to voice processing, echo cancellation and noise suppression. They're famous for it and it affects both Mic-In and built-in microphones if you have them. You even have t...

What are you recording? Much past Win7, Windows machines only work well with spoken word like Skype, iChat, or conferencing. They hate music.

Koz