Audacity Forum

Windows laptop microphones come with communication and conference processing. It tries to echo and noise cancel like a cellphone does (and for a lot of the same reasons). The processing hates music. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.html#enhancements We never said yo...

Missed a step. My mixer sends a stereo show off to be recorded , not four independent sound channels. It will mix four, say, microphones down to stereo. There are stand-alone multi-channel recorders and they're not a dreadful way to go. Three live microphones and two high-level feeds each to its own...

It seems like a nice microphone. Condenser microphones take 48volt phantom power from the preamp. So if you like that microphone, the preamp has to say "48 Volts Phantom" somewhere. This preamp seems OK. Phantom Power is where the mixer pushes 48v to run the microphone up the cable at the ...

I'm pleased you didn't start out the posting with: "I think I found a bug in Audacity." Bugs are very specific things. the recording window. What are you recording? Live microphone (which one?), YouTube sound tracks? Built-In Microphone? You can't make it go away, and you can't intentional...

Normalize, and it's close cousin Amplify work on the blue wave spikes, not loudness. Loudness processors like Chris are a lot more complicated.
Koz

apply the effect to one of the tracks, then "crossfade" the two tracks.

Unless this isn't the effect you want... and I have an idea it's not.

Koz

Attached.

I have two of them because I have 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 on my machine. Effects on a Mac are in two groups. Scroll down.

Koz

Hidden Before Zero is something that happens when you overdub. When you sing to yourself over and over again (your own barbershop trio), Audacity makes sure parts two, three, etc overlay perfectly by shifting around the track timing. Under certain conditions a track will need to be pushed to the lef...

Are there any drivers or support software? I note you can manage the stereo service and that's not a hardware selection, so there has to be software control somehow. I know the Stereo/Mono switching in Audacity can be the switch between working and not. It's disturbing that Windows thinks it's a ste...

If you have lots of software that automatically starts when you start the machine like Skype or Chat, don't let it do that, or close them when they start.

Koz