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one 3.5 jack and 2 XLR XLRs are mono unless you have a non-standard microphone or mixer. XLR Pins: 2 is the main sound signal, 3 is another special copy of the sound and 1 is the protective shield and ground. It's this little dance between pins 2 and 3 (and other tricks) that allows XLR microphones...

We recommend that voice recordings bounce around the -6 region. Around there. Nobody will come out with a stick if you go a little under or over. You may not go all the way up into the extreme red zone. We can't fix that. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/RecordingMetersMinus_6.jpg We recommend...

You also didn't say which Audacity you have. Noise Removal before Audacity 2.1.0 did not do a particularly good job with voices. Noise Reduction in Audacity 2.1.0 and up works much better.

Koz

We have some nice equipment that corrects the vinyl RIAA sound and then converts to USB. We could use a couple of words on why you're not using the USB from the turntable. There may not be any analog phono preamps any more. I do it with a Hafler HD-101 stand-alone preamp (no longer made) and I got m...

Don't shout at us in all capitals. In video land, when someone tells us they've been working for a long time and suddenly it stopped working right, they're filling up their hard drive. Are you? Your hard drive isn't open ended; it is eventually going to fill up and they become unstable and slow when...

A very common newbie mistake is to make corrections and patches on top of the original performance by using only one filename. Always make a safety copy of the raw performance. There should be zero reason to ever tell anybody they need to perform again because you messed up or lost the sound files. ...

If the show is spoken word, you can use Steve's custom equalizer software. That suppresses thumps, bumps, P-Popping and other rumbly sounds. Doesn't work if you're musical. This trick stops working the instant somebody starts singing. So what are you doing? What's the show? There's another variation...

That sounds like you tried to make a stereo recording after the 5.1 Dolby player produced the audio signals. That will be after Dialnorm has done its job so the explosions will be loud and if you don't mix down with the center channel, the dialog will be missing. So the mix was produced wrong and yo...

You can import quite a large number of different sound and video files if you install the FFMpeg software package. Follow the pathway to the type of machine you have. http://audacityteam.org/download/ However, once you get your sound track into Audacity, I don't think we can help you. There's no too...

Another note: The analog out of a USB turntable can either be "raw" or RIAA Corrected. Make sure your switches are in the right place. Music on a record isn't straight and correct. That won't fit, so it's distorted according to RIAA specifications. That means you have to undistort it somew...