Audacity Forum

You can't use Playthrough while you're overdubbing. Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Recording: [X] Overdub —  the only thing selected. You can also get that if you're recording from Stereo Mix or one of the other techniques of streaming or self-recording. You have to be recording directly from the m...

You may be a candidate for Chris's Compressor. Chris wrote a plugin to Audacity that can be adjusted to sound like the local radio station. He intended it to "even out" operas so he could listen in the car. I increase the first value, Compression ratio from 0.5 to 0.77 and it's a dead ring...

Have you used this combination to record anything else?

Koz

There are possibilities of disaster. When you're overdubbing, the machine has to record the new track and play the old track (sometimes more than one) in real time exactly, perfectly, correctly. If for some reason your computer can't do that, you will never make it through the latency line-up. So wh...

You could also Pause recording with the P key. P again to resume recording.

Koz

I did have high hopes. So the good news is no more Pennsylvania Rail Road and Golden State Freeway in the sound. It's just pure hiss from microphone electronics. Noise through direct conduction and touching the floor or desk isn't hard to fix. Attached 1 is me fixing it with plumbing supplies and Un...

We would urge production in WAV (Microsoft) rather than MP3. You can't edit MP3 without the quality getting worse and worse. WAV holds up much better.

Koz

The reason this didn't leap out at you is we can't split a mixed performance into individual instruments, and past some basic equalization tools, we can't bring one instrument out over the others. If the instrument is playing by itself, you can select it on the timeline and File > Export Selected Au...

Which Windows do you have and what version of Audacity? All versions if there are more than one. The latest versions of Audacity realize there's something wrong and should have asked you if you wanted to recover the project on the next launch.

Koz

This is your chance to be obsessive, too. You can keep magnifying the timeline and get the corrections down to the half-cycle of a high-pitched audio tone. It won't stay there. Home computers aren't that accurate or stable, but it will give you a warm, fuzzy feeling. And beyond a certain accuracy, i...