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Setting perceived loudness is a pain in the neck, so most of these tools set everything by peaks. Whoever's head is sticking up in the blue waves wins. If someone bumps the microphone once during the performance, that's very bad. That loud bump will take over all the level setting tools. That's the ...

You can change the Audacity default specifications in preferences.

Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Quality. Stereo/Mono is set in Devices.

Koz

Sorry. Missed the sound clips. That's certainly getting there. And yes, when you get into this you find all sorts of noisemakers that would go right by you in real life. I think the hum is workable. Post a voice test with a five second "Room Tone." Announce: "This is room tone" a...

Behold Ian, who authored the longest post in forum history. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=78561 30 chapters. He's recording his voice with a Blue Snowball. That's it. That's all he's doing. No guests, no complexities, no Skype. He is doing this for a paycheck; this is not a ...

Just to be clear, no matter what we do short of building a studio or wearing good quality headsets, the recording is only going to be less awful. Garages sometimes work amazingly well. If yours is anything like mine, it's lined floor to ceiling with boxes and trash. Back the car out, close the door ...

I'm talking to someone at a supplier about your microphone being broken. Do your round-about test with the microphone in cardioid or "kidney" mode. When you get to the back, you should hear almost all room echo and no direct voice. We didn't ask the embarrassing questions, but did you buy ...

a pair of dynamic mics

Such as?
Koz

Yes. pretty much. Snuggle up to the Yeti and find out if there is a distance/spacing that gives reasonable voice quality and helps to ignore echoes. The place for furniture moving pads is the floor or desk and behind each performer. Note there's a pad on the floor here: http://www.kozco.com/pictures...

I'm just playing this back. How were you going to handle three people with your Figure of Eight microphone?
Koz

You may be able to mute your microphone in Windows Control Panels. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer.html Audacity has Timed Recording. You can tell it when to wake up and start recording and when to stop. Unfortunately only once. You can't program...