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Real Time listening to yourself on headphones goes a long way to suppressing the urge to get irrationally theatrical. This is the theory behind "sidetone" on telephones. Remember telephones? A little of your own voice was intentionally fed back to yourself so you can have confirmation of t...

There's a hidden oddity in Audacity that it won't auto scan for devices after it starts. So you can restart Audacity with the device plugged in or Transport > Rescan.

Koz

That's called "Vocal Isolation." That's your Google search term. You can try searching the forum, but I don't think we ever got any further than "this works badly." You would think if we could do Vocal Removal, we could turn the program over and do isolation. The karaoke tools wo...

I'm interested in experimenting with the Hard Limiter you mention. Audacity doesn't do anything in real time. The limiters, compressors and processors are all post-production tools and depend on you getting a good basic recording at the performance stage. Turns out I did run into a tool quality pro...

Perfectly correct. That does pass and it sounds OK, but I think I would have pushed just the slightest Noise Reduction in there. Attached. Use the blank Room Tone lead-in to the clip for Profile and and then apply NR to the whole clip with 6,6,6 settings. The Noise Reduction of the Beast. It's not e...

I got the clip from your server. Maybe you do need to see the Audacity sound meters while you're recording. You punched "It's Admirable" and the blue waves went almost all the way up to overload damage. There's ways to fix that, but the loudness imbalance is too far for the regular tools a...

Koz, did you mean recording in a conversational style or taking turns with chapters? "Tell me, Jerreth, what do you think about Noah's flood?" I couldn't listen to that much over ten minutes. I meant hacking up the message into segments and see how they sound when she gets to the end of h...

I'm still managing Sunday. You can put a hard-back book between the microphone stand and the towels for added stability. If it's floor vibrations, that should reduce them to zero. At work I got fancy and cut plywood panels and painted them black. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/3013PressureZo...

Dueling posts. I need to stop and read your last post.
Koz

I wasn't kidding about the test clip timing. Freeze for two seconds and talk for 8 or as much as they will allow you to post—in mono. Past the third second, additional Room Tone doesn't do any good. The last clip had over four which is wasteful overkill and takes time away from your performance. Ign...