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No, that really is me acting as neither wall breaker nor woman. Googling "library" will get you nowhere. "Public Library." Here's a really bad first pass at a podcast. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/DeniseFirstPass-Edited.mp3 http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PodCast_Studi...

Stereo Mix works with the soundcard. USB devices don't go through the soundcard.

Skype is vicious with its sound management. You usually have to use software designed to work with Skype, not general purpose software like Audacity.

Open Broadcasting System

Use Open Broadcasting System.

Koz

I'm very pleased you provided an example of work you like. Sometimes it's pulling teeth getting posters to tell us what they want to sound like.
Koz

I'm perfectly pleased to do that, but it may take a bit of time. The forum elves are all volunteers and sometimes Real Life gets in the way.

Koz

Good luck. It's not unusual for continued patching to turn sound damage into different sound damage without ever improving anything.

Koz

My next task is to analyze and practice "acting" as a presenter One of the artists at work was a grand master at the lecture. "Hey. Did you hear? Bill's going to read the phone book in the screening room." "Most cool. Is it full yet?" [shuffling feet dying out] SRO. He...

Windows has tools and services designed for conferencing that can damage live recording. For example, they hate music.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... hancements

They're not the only ones, either.

Koz

It's not up to Audacity. Macs allow some of those characters now.

Koz

Right. Crisp.

Effect > Equalization points from about 4000 and up affect brightness or crispness. Experiment. I prepared a simple curve attached. That's approximately what "voice" microphones do internally to sound brighter.

Koz

Instead of writing this again and again, I posted instructions for preparing a clip. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html Note the first two seconds are freeze and hold your breath. Yes, we can hear your pants and shirt moving. I makes measuring the electrical noise of the ...