Audacity Forum

Sure. That's called "Overdubbing" and there are instructions how to set up for it. https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_multi_track_overdubs.html Note there are two different kinds of overdubbing, plain and perfect. Plain overdubbing is what you posted. You hear the backi...

Here's one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRfODcloiBc

He doesn't address the half-volume thing, but I'm not on Windows, so I can't tell.

Let us know if this works—or helps.

Koz

Scarlett Solo has driver software available. That may help. Audacity gets its sound from Windows, not the device, so that's a good place to address it. We know what's happening. When you tell the system to record in mono, it reduces the channel volume by half to "make room" in case both of...

I’ve learned a lesson that’s for sure. We are pleased you have all the original work and the opportunity to put the show together again. We have too many posts from people who performed in front of the microphone, edited the work and just as they save the final, the machine goes down taking them al...

We should wait for someone who knows more about the file structure of an active edit than I do. Audacity keeps sound in temporary files in memory during an edit and that sound would be trash when the machine went down. If Audacity was trying to write to disk at the moment of shutdown, then the file ...

Are you using cloud storage anywhere in your system?

Audacity is not a fan of cloud drives and internet storage.

Koz

Stereo/Mono has to match, too.

What is the microphone and how is it connected?

Koz

combination of frequency signal. I don't think you do. In the hardware world, a distortion analyzer sets a total sound reference point at 100% and then adjusts frequency and phase controls to carefully eliminate one reference tone from the total. It measures what's left in percent. You have to know...

Noise Reduction is going to fail if the show is too similar to the noise. Purring = Room Rumble. It will also fail if the performance is too complex—the show sound is too close to white noise. Whisper = white or pink noise. I just want it to remove the hum/hissing/hushing background room noises. You...

Do you have copies of the original sound files so you could put the show back together if you had to? Do you use Time Machine Backups? Any backups? If Audacity lost it while it was writing the work, there may not be a recoverable show. Any manual backups? Save-As the show with a new filename? WAV ba...