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If we counted votes against, I would definitely vote -1

That means you're for it.

I did tell it. I carefully selected a portion of the show. Why else would I do that?

Koz

the headphone or master and put it into my computer That's the step that kills many people. Most laptop computers (including the newer Macs) have no way to connect a stereo device or mixer. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PCLaptopSound.jpg You could get insanely lucky and have the Mic-In con...

You have a non-symmetrical voice. I recorded a woman/man broadcast radio show and I could pick out who was talking totally by looking at the blue waves. She had non-symmetrical wave and he didn't. It's possible that anything we do to "fix" that may make you sound funny. We can make somethi...

XLR to USB

Model numbers? We can't see what you're doing and we may see something you're doing wrong that you don't see.

Koz

We don't have any good voice changing tools in Audacity. It's harder than you think. You can't just pitch the voice down and boost the lows. Some vocal sounds don't change as you grow up.

Effect > Change Pitch
Effect > Equalization

Koz

connected to the phantom power box like it should be.

Whose preamp are you using and how are you getting it into the computer or music system?

Koz

This is one of the configurations I tested for Perfect Overdubbing. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/peaveyUCA202Lenovo.jpg There's a mixer inside the USB adapter and it can deliver zero latency mixing and production. If you need it louder, you do have to provide your own headphone booster. Al...

That can be a permissions issue. Do you have "normal" drives on your machine? You're not trying to run Audacity over a Network or anything like that? Any USB drives? Go > Utilities > Disk Utilities Select your system drive and Verify Disk and then Repair Permissions. Leave time. If you hav...

nothing works.

Did you restart the machine?
Koz

BBC Realistic Model - 32-1200B I had one of those (similar) and I shot some voice sound tracks with it, too, but I had it connected to a very nice microphone and super well-behaved, quiet Mac and I was shooting theatrical presentation voices in a very quiet room in one of the annex buildings at wor...