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so much for a cardioid microphone, which the Snowball is. It's switchable with the little switch on the back. For directional, make sure it's in position 1 and then make sure you're talking into the company name. Cardioid microphones are not a gift from the angels. You still need a quiet room—or a ...

Nothing leaps out at me. Recording work on Zoom meetings is notoriously difficult. It's the forum's recommendation that you get Zoom to record the meetings and not try to do it yourself. I think what you have right now is normal and what you had before was unusual and surprising.

Koz

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/sel ... sings.html

Koz

Effect > Normalize (Remove DC) has to be used before you mix and edit. The songs have to be DC-Free before you combine them. You can get pops of you edit sound wrong. This is one silly example. Top one is very bad. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/BadAndGoodEdit.jpg There's two distortions. ...

I remember this. This is the mixer you can use to manage and integrate a phone call. That right there would be worth the price if it worked well. From the instructions, they expect the XLR connections to work really well and the only way you would know that is turn off all the processing, filters, e...

then right-click on the calibration panel at the right of the track-control-panel and select "Half Wave" ("Zoom Reset") to reset. Good to know (writing that down). However, from our electronics training we know the different between Half-Wave and Full-Wave. Full Wave folds the n...

Fair warning the show isn't going to be clear audio after that. The effect is listed under "Distortion" for a reason.

Koz

sorry if the formatting here is wrong.

It's OK. If we need more information, we'll tell you.

Are you using a cloud drive connection? Audacity hates that.

Koz

Don't run Skype or Zoom before you test Audacity. They can scramble sound settings.

Koz

Close Audacity. Do a clean shutdown of Windows. Shift+Shutdown. Not Restart and not regular Shutdown. This will take longer than normal as Windows cleans itself. Make sure your devices are connected and working (in Windows Sound Control Panels) and then run Audacity.

Koz