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Maybe you just haven't found the settings. Windows defaults to voice processing if it thinks there could be a microphone connected. Did you see multiple layers of processing in a selection panel? - No processing - Moderate Processing - Heavy Processing. Windows machines are no longer "generic&q...

You should be using Audacity 2.1.0 in Yosemite. Earlier versions are not supported.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/recovery.html

This is as far as I can go without help.

Koz

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... rdubs.html

Koz

Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Recording. [X] Overdub should be the only thing selected.

Make sure you're recording from your microphone and not Stereo-Mix or What-U-Hear. Stereo-Mix is the setting used to record internet sound, but you can't do that when you're overdubbing.

Koz

As of right this second, you should see the new clip instructions.
http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/Test ... _Clip.html

Koz

Remember you asked. The background noise is suspiciously low. Nobody records with a nearly -80dB noise floor. Right at "Chapter Forty-One" the voice is hollow-tube honky like it was excessively noise-reduced or recorded in a tiny room... or both. Make up a test clip for us, and this time d...

She has stereo (deep room) effects added to her voice. That's one of the conditions that causes Vocal Removal to fail.

Koz

Also. be sure you're installing Audacity 2.1.0 from here.
http://web.audacityteam.org/download/

There are other versions such as 2.1 and 2.10 which are not supported.

Koz

You need to help us out a little bit. Start with the information in the pink band above and then on to the show you're trying to compress. Stereo? Mono? Duration?

Koz

I have my isolator here, but haven't had time to mess with it. I have the additional problem of only creating the problem by using a special combination of equipment. Unlike you, I didn't just plug a microphone in and it started whining. I had to create the problem. Now I have to create the problem ...