Audacity Forum

What are you recording? English words: "I think I'll record my voice on the laptop built-in microphone."

Koz

There must be easier ways to upset ones mother

...and Trebor.

Koz

I don't know. I didn't install that FFMpeg because it would conflict with an earlier Audacity I use for daily production. Plus I'm on a Mac.

So this is us waiting for a senior elf.

Koz

You can make a composite/mixed track yourself without exporting it and test it for overload. Tracks > Mix and Render to a New Track. A brand-new track will appear at the bottom of your edit window. Now turn on View > Show Clipping. The blue waves will have bright red bands all the places the sound i...

We need to wait for a senior elf.
I wonder if you installed it in a folder that Audacity can't access....

Edit > Preferences > Libraries

Koz

I'm pretty sure I know what we're doing. It's an effort to get the users to RTFM. Unfortunately, it's easy to slip from that to a "download" page which does no such thing.

Koz

You did install the appropriate FFMpeg add-on software, right? That's the one that allows tricks like multi-channel.

http://lame.buanzo.org/#lamewindl

Koz

Here it is. Edit > Select > All.
Effect > Amplify: Amplification -6dB > OK.

Koz

Almost without question you are overloading the show sound. Each time you add another voice or music, the overall volume goes up. Add enough of them and the digital channel runs out. Overload and Clipping is pretty obvious just by listening. Crackly, crunchy and popping during voice or music. Withou...

When the multi-tracks vanished, they took with them the last chance of fixing up one or two instruments. Never let them get away from you. Audacity can't split a mixed performance apart into individual instruments or voices. Anything you do with Effect > Equalization (the obvious choice) is going to...