Audacity Forum

You're trying to overdub, right, adding voices and music one after the other? This happens when you told Audacity to record Stereo Mix (everything playing on the computer) instead of a particular microphone or device. It's a common error because of the popularity of recording YouTube tracks and on-l...

Also remember, Audacity adds dither to every export, so the before and after are not identical.

Koz

It's lossless, but it's still compressed. The compression efficiency can still go up and down.
Koz

Once you get the studio resolved, you're ready for the rest of the process. ACX has a number of publications and videos to guide you through AudioBook Production. http://blog.acx.com/2014/06/26/how-to-succeed-at-audiobook-production-part-1/ http://www.acx.com/help/video-lessons-resources/200672590 h...

Test4 easily passes the three specifications with a simple correction for sound peaks (normal correction). Select the whole clip > Effect > Normalize: [X]Normalize to -3.2 [X]Remove DC. RMS is -21 or -18 depending on how you measure it. Both pass. Peaks are -3.2 which passes Noise Floor before the d...

I predict you are trying to record from your mixer or microphone adapter into the Stereo Line-In of your new laptop. Except new laptops don't have Stereo Line-In any more. Most of them have Mono Mic-In and Headphone connections only, and Mic-In tends to overload and crash at -6dB. You didn't include...

Since we can't see your machine, you need to tell us, in detail, what you're doing.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/Docu ... tions3.pdf

Koz

If you're not a purist and you're listening in challenging conditions, you might like Chris's Compressor. Chris wrote his software so he could listen to opera in a noisy car. It does take into account scene by scene variations... and gets rid of them. I use it to even out on-line radio productions, ...

Open an Audacity project. Import a sound file.

If you still have wacky failure conditions, an overly aggressive virus protection software package has been known to interrupt writing to the drive, even though you have permissions and everything else seems to be OK.

Koz

Missed another piece. Once you get the two tracks so they harmonize (Audacity will play them both at once unless you prevent it), the simple act of exporting your show to a sound file will mix them down to one track. This presupposes you have a good sound system to listen to it...

Koz