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Are you in Audacity 2.4.2? Audacity (upper left) > About Audacity.

Earlier Audacity versions didn't "know" about Catalina.

Past that we should wait for a senior forum elf. I didn't do the Catalina update, so I'm working from other people's experiences.

Koz

Audacity does need to be granted permission to access the mic

Desktop > Apple (upper left).

System Preferences > Security and Privacy > Microphone

See if that helps.

Koz

Are you in Audacity 2.4.2? You can get a cross between Audacity and the microphone if you pick Stereo/Mono wrong. I think the Yeti will mount either one, but if you have one selected, try the other. Also you can try preferences. Audacity > Preferences > Devices > Recording I'm trying to remember if ...

There is one other note. On the new machine, next time you talk to someone in the system, ask them if they're hearing their own voice coming back to them as an echo. That can be pretty annoying and that's one of the evil side issues of trying to hand-manage sound pathways around a voip call.

Koz

rMBP1 looks absolutely, totally, dead normal. rMBP2 looks possessed by evil spirits. rMBP2 is also recording from something magic. The information band claims you're recording three sound channels, not stereo (2) and you're recording from whatever "AudacityHub is." Recording "fold bac...

Which Audacity do you have? The current one is 2.4.2 and it has all the production tools built-in, apart from ACX Check which you already have. Everybody goes straight for the microphone. Not my opinion. If you start with a quiet, echo-free room, you can use almost any functioning microphone or soun...

There's two loops. The theater loop is where the content and sounds mesh perfectly to each other, but there's also a technical loop where the blue waves on the timeline meet in a harmonious manner. The technical loop is the one that can give you a mysterious tick or pop at the loop point which doesn...

There's instructions on loops.

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tut ... oping.html

Koz

Another note. It is recommended that you export all original works, mistakes and all, as WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit sound files. This guarantees you'll never have to read it again even if Audacity crashes or does anything else messy. Save the files somewhere safe. Edit copies. Label tracks will not foll...

Fair Warning!!

The content track and the label track are not natively linked. If you change the duration of the voice, the labels will not follow you. You can force a link with Tracks > Sync Lock Tracks.

Or you could just clap.

Koz