Audacity Forum

The L/R pan slider to the left of the track can do that. Even if you do that to a mono track (one blue wave ), a stereo track will automatically be created in the background.

Koz

I'm modeling "clueless user" on a fresh, clean, design-center machine. If this doesn't work, what condition is the ideal or goal?

Koz

Did you recently update to El Capitan (10.11.5)? Base hardware. Do you have enough free drivespace for new work? Sometimes the video people get stuck with this. "I've been recording perfectly for months and now, suddenly, it doesn't work right" (because my drive filled up). Sometimes you c...

Your login says Windows Vista, but you posted in the Mac forum. ???

Which numbered Audacity do you have?

What are you trying to record? Details are good.

Koz

The ideal on-the-fly edit has you putting the "Edit-In" point somewhere in the existing show and pressing an Edit button instead of Record (I'm making some of this up). Audacity automatically backs up, say three seconds, rolls playback and automatically switches to record three seconds lat...

MacBook Air OS-X 10.11.5 Native. Not an upgrade. Never been any other OS. Audacity from http://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/ audacity-macosx-ub-2.1.2.dmg Audacity seems to run OK. Lame_Library_v3.98.2_for_Audacity_on_OSX.dmg Downloaded and exploded OK into the install location. /usr/local/lib/a...

Audacity has Effect > Vocal Reduction and Isolation. If it's a mono recording (one blue wave) or two-track mono (two blue waves, but they're the same), you're out of luck. The tool needs stereo separation to work. As a pretty firm rule, you can count on a complete inability to split a mixed performa...

So the poster is a celebrity.

@gnomeplanet - if you rejoin the thread, please do post a sample of the work as above.

Koz

I figured out what you want. It's what everybody else wants. When you make the fluff, Stop the recording. Go into careful editing, Zoom if you need to and carefully remove the fluff audio down to the point you want to rejoin. Pick a point at the zero-crossing line (in the middle of the timeline). Yo...

I do a lot of recording Of what? What are you doing? The current version is Audacity 2.1.2 and you can get it from here. http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ Did you get your Audacity from that location? You may have gotten a bad version from somewhere else. Windows 10 can have trouble wit...