Audacity Forum

Is there a way to use the mixer in a universal way What people usually mean by that is do production in real time. You want to real-time filter each song as it plays instead of applying a correction to each song and saving it. No. That's using Audacity as a live mixer and it won't do that, unlike s...

Which version did you come from?

Installing and reinstalling brings your old settings forward. If you want to reset Audacity Preferences, scroll down.

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

Which microphone are you using and how is it connected?

Koz

The problem as I was writing the original Overdubbing is getting the manufacturers to admit their equipment can do the live versus track playback mix for your headphones. I've talked to suppliers and got a blank look; they didn't really know what I was talking about. Only USB mixers can do this tric...

but if you close Audacity and chose to not save the project, and cancel the warning that the project has not been saved, then Audacity assumes that you don't want to save the project.

I was close.
Koz

I thought Audacity autosaved? It does. But if you close Audacity and open it up again, it clears the old show getting ready for the new production. So unless the other elves have any ideas, what you exported or saved is what you have. We had another recent post similar to this. The producer was edi...

That's a darn good question. I have and reviewed a Shure X2U microphone amplifier and digitizer. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/x2uShureOverdub.jpg Excuse the ratty SM58 microphone on the left. Once you get to that level of quality, buyers expect clean, clear sound with no hash, buzz or odd ...

This has been frustrating doing it right and the same way for more than a year. We're still waiting for you to reveal the exact path you are saving the project to Thanks for the details, but you need to follow us when we direct you to do things. We have to keep your machine in our heads as well as ...

Are you doing this with an eye to solving the ACX/AudioBook presenter sound problem? We get many posters that have been rejected from ACX standards and compliance and want to know how to fix their submission.

Koz

People new to recording always have the same complaint: How come this isn't as loud as the music on iTunes or other service or the CD I bought? Those performers have been through the "loudness war" where special distortion is added to make the sound louder, denser and more forward without ...

Overdubbing is a normal tool in Audacity, but hearing yourself while you play is not so normal. That's a very difficult trick for generic computers to pull off. I reviewed three hardware choices that do let you listen to the mix, but you have to listen to the device, not the computer. http://www.koz...