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I've tried recording w/the mic on my headset and that works fine with Audacity.

Is the headset USB?

Koz

When you overdub, the machine has to play all your old tracks perfectly in sync and real time and record the new track, also in sync and real time. This isn't like calculating a spreadsheet where it doesn't care how much time it takes. Overdubbing cares a lot. So it may be a combination of speed and...

Yes, it does have lights. Apparently they go from "We Don't Care" to "Overloaded," what do your lights say? I expect them to be blasting red at you.

Koz

Without going into the instruction book for your equipment, a number of sound processors have volume indicators. The simplest is a single light that happily flashes green when the sound is optimal (and doesn't flash at all when it's too quiet. It starts turning yellow when you get slightly louder an...

You can make Windows machines give you sound boost, sometimes when you'd just as soon not have it. Consult your Windows sound settings. I think that will just give you loud sound. I don't think that will give you clipping.

Koz

Clipping at 0.5 is very common when somebody connects a loud, powerful, Line signal such as from a mixer or headphone out to a connection which is expecting a low level microphone signal—think butterfly wings. Because of the way mic preamps work, they work less well when you put a volume control on ...

No. I don't think they can do it, either. Removing vocals and reverb are the two constantly requested features, mostly because those two problems stand in the way of a lot of people producing good-sounding shows, podcasts, gamecap and audiobooks. This clip will always sound like she was recording in...

If it really is a zoom problem, you can get back to normal with Command-F which is "Full Show." That should be your full presentation beginning to end. There's four (or more) zoom tools up in the toolbar. Which did you click? Describe the show. Sometimes odd behavior can be linked to what ...

Screen shots show as original screen size, not forum size. They're big enough to cover a stadium with enough left over for the Starbucks next door. The elves have a published standard for graphic size so the poster has a fighting chance to see illustrations. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/Audaci...

Attached is a simple, 30 second, mono project _DATA folder. Larger shows are more complicated. The little AU files are intentionally scrambled. You can find the original show name by opening the AUP file in TextEdit and read it. Look for a listing called projname=". This is why zipping is prett...