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when I record a DJ mix off of Mixcould

In Audacity? How are you doing that? Recording on-line content is not a natural Windows sound path.

Can you tell if the MixCloud sound is OK before you downloaded it? This is where good speakers or headphones on your computer is handy.

Koz

Are you using SoundFlower or SoundFlowerBed?
Koz

its just recording EVERYTHING together Right. Perfectly common. That's what happens when you have your machine set for recording YouTube or other internet sound. Those settings are different from the settings needed for overdubbing. To record YouTube sound, the computer has to play the music out to...

Yeah. I got that. There's changes you need to make and I need to research them.

Koz

If you're comfortable not hearing your own voice during overdubbing, then you don't need the special hardware or device. Some people work like that.

Koz

You almost described Overdubbing. Import the music track in Audacity. Set up your system for Overdubbing. The next time you press record, Audacity will play the music into your headphones and produce your voice on a second track, in time with, but divorced from the music. Use this process to sing th...

I think this is the closest section to fill your needs.

Koz

Here it is. Back from Chapter 1.

The block in the picture that i posted is usually static, or garbled audio.

Koz

When you realise how long it takes to do a 5 minute podcast with not umming Most people do Ummm. That's what gives you the 25 minute editing time for a five minute show, to correct the mistakes. If you don't do that, you get an "On The Fly" podcast which is painful to listen to because it...

It's not rocket surgery. Home recordists, unless they get really lucky, run into similar problems. Your task is to find a message thread from someone who had similar enough problems to yours to be useful—and whose thread succeeded. Nothing like being a "me-to" and we can't get either of yo...