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Make sure Audacity is set for stereo.

Audacity > Preferences > Devices > Recording: Channels [2 Stereo]

Koz

Is that track a true stereo recording? No. Nice try. It has to come from the turntable that way. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/RCAMiniStereo-650.jpg One of these? That must be plugged into the blue Stereo-In of your soundcard. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/soundCardFinal2.jpg If all y...

Another note. I know your interface has a 24-bit, 192KHz sampling service, but if your computer can't handle a real-time USB connection that fast, you may get holes, glitches and stuttering in your recording. The recommendation is connect at plain, ordinary 44100, 16-bit, Stereo (Audio CD Standards)...

I'm not just making that up. "Overprocessing" is a common ACX AudioBook rejection.

Koz

Your processing, distortion and noise floor are unstable and moving. You need to find and kill all your little processing "helpers." Something in your setup is trying really hard to "help" you make a personal call or conferencing connection. For one example, the noise in the midd...

Thank you for the system details. In the clip I've attached, my only post-recording processing has been to amplify the track a little. How little? We warn people not to do anything to the clip before posting. We had one poster make the clip louder "so we could hear it" and it turned out th...

One note. Noise Removal doesn't exist any more. Audacity 2.1.0 and on has Noise Reduction. Everybody kept expecting Noise Removal to remove noise and I don't think it ever did that. Noise Reduction does actually reduce noise and does it much better that Removal ever did. However, Noise Reduction sti...

Your dialog describing how you're working doesn't describe at all how Noise Reduction works. First step. Noise Removal never worked all that well in Audacity versions before 2.1.0. The noise tool in Audacity 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 is Noise Reduction and it works head and shoulders better than Noise Removal...

Noise Removal isn't fuzzy/generic. At the start of the filter, you point it at a sample of the one exact noise you want to remove. Then the tool removes that one exact noise from the show. It's not a tool that removes "everything I don't like." Leveler creates sound distortion. The only re...

Back to regular editing with the "I-Beam" tool.
Koz