Audacity Forum

By the way, it's a valid test if the noise gets worse. That means you're on the right track. As you posted, you tried suppressing background activities and it didn't do a thing.

Koz

just taking the hum of the AC out later. It's not that easy. All Noise Removal does is automatically figure out precision filters and effects appropriate to the type of noise you have. That's the Profile step. It also takes many of those sound tones out of your voice. The idea is to reduce the nois...

??? You're using Effect > Vocal Removal, the pre-baked tool? Does it just fail—have no effect, or does it act badly? I know this isn't likely, but does it fail on a show that used to work? Can you check that? It might save a lot of analysis. Basic Vocal Removal is as complicated as a rock, so it's h...

@Bhodi.
I'm going to ask a senior forum elf to move your posting into its own topic rather than piggyback. Stacked topics are very hard to manage

Koz

Probably one of the handiest things we ever did was build a tool that mimics the Evil ACX Robot which is the first thing you hit when you submit to ACX for Acceptance. Will developed ACX-Check as a handy one-pass tool out of older programs and tools. It automatically tests your presentation for the ...

Describe what's going on between the guitar and the computer. 1/4" plug like you were going to connect to an amp, except instead of another 1/4" plug at the other end, you have an 1/8" plug (looks the same but smaller) plugged into the side of your laptop? Does the laptop connection h...

That's not a Yeti Pro, is it? Those are very different microphones.

Koz

This your first AudioBook? We have some testing tools to save you a bunch of work with ACX-AudioBook compliance. There is a "normal" failure for this and we can try those solutions, but that doesn't appear like normal data failures. It sounds like electrical interference from a bad motor, ...

Maybe it's not enough coffee. You're on Windows 7.
Do you record internet music or YouTube sound?

Koz

One common mistake is play the music on the laptop speakers and then record it on the laptop microphone. That will give you music the quality of your laptop speakers.

Koz