Audacity Forum

Phono channels generally don't have trimmers or adjusters. That's why you can't make the overload go away.

Koz

Moving Magnet is the type associated with disco, dance floors, scratching, and mixing. They have high output volume and I expect a DJ Mixer to have a matching preamp. Does it switch between cartridge types? The preamp has to match or you will either get low volume and noise, or overload.

Koz

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You may be due for a scratch test. Make a recording and scratch the microphone and then the microphone on your laptop. Mine is just left of the left-hand shift key.

https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/cli ... hTest2.mp3

Koz

Seems OK. What application made the MP3s?

Will they open and play in Windows Media?

Koz

The "R" button and "Shift+R" are the difference between recording a new track and not. That changed a while ago when most people wanted to add onto the end of an existing show. I think that's what "R" does now. You can change it back to the old way. Audacity > Edit > Pr...

Macs for the most part leave you alone when you're trying to produce original content, but Zoom, Skype, Chat and other communications and conferencing apps don't. The obvious one is leaving Zoom running in the background waiting for a call, but under some conditions, Zoom can actually close and leav...

Getting WAV files to you could be a challenge. A three-minute ordinary WAV file comes in about 32MB. My email poops out at 25MB. This may be a good place for one of the "lossless" file types such as FLAC.

Koz

I think you should be the Central Clearing House for sound files, not have the other performers pushing sound files back and forth to each other. Keep the perfect quality WAV version of your drum or rhythm/backing track for final mixing and production later. Make a small efficient MP3 and post that ...

What do you have selected in the Audacity output window? It's the little speaker picture.


This is the setting for my laptop built-in speakers.

Koz

This rings a different bell for me. Is it a stereo show? Two blue waves? You never said what you were recording, but there are microphone systems that record two out of step tracks such that they cancel if you listen on a mono system. Open a copy of the show. Tracks > Mix > Mix stereo down to mono ....