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What are you dragging and dropping? If you updated from a very early version of Audacity, it's possible you need to also update your FFMpeg add-on software.

http://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/

Scroll down to plugins.

Koz

Attached sample sound clip.

Koz

In the case of the podcast test, I played a music player out of the laptop into the mixer and that's how I got my background music for the show. The other side of the laptop recorded the show mix—both at once.

Koz

Sure. That's how I did my Skype Podcast test. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PodCast_Studio_WS.jpg Connect the headphone or stereo line-out of the computer to one of the line-In connections on the mixer. The microphone is pretty obvious. Connect the Tape-Out, Line-Out or whatever your mixer has ...

This is where your data link restriction is going to cause problems. You can't post the whole chapter somewhere can you?

Koz

I do in the back of my mind wonder why a normal woman's announcing voice should have such extreme troubles. This is a similar rescue process as someone who walked out in the middle of a noisy street with a broken microphone and tried to read audiobooks.

Koz

It's official. I don't remember how to install custom equalizer curves.... [email protected]#$% Download this from my web site. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/Documents/LF_rolloff_for_speech.xml.zip It has the same data size as about six English sentences. It "looks" like a short shopping list. You s...

I know you probably figured this out by now, but this goes a lot faster if you repeatedly refresh your browser. In FireFox it's a little curved arrow in the menu bar. It will not automatically show you the latest forum postings.

Koz

Do Not Allow Clipping. Clipping produces irrecoverable sound damage.

Put something on the timeline so you can see Effect > Equalization > Select Curve. Do you see LF Rolloff For Speech in that list?

Koz

Amplify, unless you change it, will always try to cram the volume up as far as it can (0). I'm using that predictability to set the parameters for the limiter. The limiter will bring objectionable peaks back down from 0 and leave everything else alone. The final cleanup in Normalize brings us into (...