Audacity Forum

Dueling posts. I'm listening to your sample.

Koz

it records from directly behind itself. No. It records directly behind you. Draw a line from the Yeti through your head to the wall behind you. The recording pattern is a balloon and it's recording you and behind both of your ears. It's not a narrow laser beam. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pi...

"To Phones" is supposed to feed the Audacity overdubbing playback into your headphones so you can overdub with the old tracks in your headphones as a guide along with your real-time voice. It shouldn't affect the show at all. "To Main Mix" adds the old tracks to the real time voi...

Most clipping and overload patches work by "guessing" what the original sound was by carefully inspecting what's left. If you have trouble understanding the work, then there isn't anything left.

Koz

It's the fade that kills you. Audacity is going to perform the fades at 32-bit floating. The input sound, the output sound and the internal and external fades are all different. You need dither there to keep the conversion errors from lining up. Cuts and deletes are free. Input sound, Audacity sound...

You use Pamela if you really need it to work perfectly, generate a split stereo sound file (you on one side and the guest on the other) in WAV (Microsoft) format suitable for editing and post production. If you don't have the bank for a license or your application isn't critical, there are other pro...

Did any of those work?
Koz

above went totally over my head. The idea in my case was to give Skype its own computer to play with. Skype can have problems when you have multiple different applications on one computer struggling to control the sound system. That does not go well. do a quick one minute interview That would be th...

It occurred to me reading over that again, we were telling you to do the same thing two different ways. Elves can have race conditions. The split second when two elves answer the same question within a second of each other, each not seeing the other. Then there's elf/poster races. You post a reply a...

Edit > Preferences > Recording: [_] Playthrough (de-select). You should be recording USB Audio Codec and not Stereo Mix or What-U-Hear. You should be on headphones-only if you have a live microphone. Close, really close Skype. We have had several postings that somehow manage to double record like th...