Audacity Forum

Which Mac? Which version of the OS? Which microphone? Are you published anywhere with the sharp vocal tones that we can hear? If not, can you record a test and publish it here? We're interested in the first-pass, raw recording. No effects, no filters and no helping it out. Doesn't matter what it is....

You updated to El Capitan or you updated to Audacity 2.1.2? And from what?

Koz

It seems to be recording off of the internal mic, but skips and then won't record at all with my Apogee mic. That's important because it means the Mac internal systems are all working and the problem is most likely with the microphone, cables or the microphone connection system. Is there a micropho...

Yeah. That's where it starts getting magic. Say you have two single, blue wave, mono tracks one above the other. I don't know, voice and guitar. Pan one very slightly left and the other very slightly right. When you Export, Audacity will mix everything into one show ( unless you tell it not to ). Be...

Which brings us to Gary Owens. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/GaryOwens.jpg Everybody thinks he was being stupid, comical and theatrical, but that's a real thing. You sluice some of your live voice up to your ear through your cupped hand to mix with everything else. The other ear can be one ...

Any word?

Koz

Yes. That's correct. You're experiencing your voice or performance "one computer late," the time it takes for your voice to get into the computer, turn around and come back out again. It's fixed. There's no adjustment to make it go away. That's why the three instanced of "Perfect Over...

There is another way to force this to work. Effect >Change Tempo. That should change the duration of the song and nothing else.

...it says here.

Koz

And a studio. Walk in, relax, announce the work, collect the finished basic track and go home. How is that different from what you were doing?

One poster had been recording in a good studio and wanted to start doing it from home. They have no idea.....

Koz

I think now you're into "What kind of car should I buy." Try out the tools and options into a good sound system (or good headphones) and see which you like. It's pretty easy to overdo the stereo conversion thing and you should avoid wide left-right splits between the performers. Both of th...