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I would use various plugins, mostly the oxford dynamic compressor/limiter.

Why aren't you doing it in Pro Tools now?
Koz

As for the other question, I would create a duplicate track, invert it, and do multiband pass to phase cancel the inaudible highs and lows then play both tracks as a stereo pair. There is a promotional announcement on PBS which does that. She sounds like she's speaking from behind me. It's super an...

And you can stop reinstalling Audacity. Audacity is a complete slave to the preference settings and whatever Windows is doing. They all have to line up.

What are you recording? If it's a USB microphone, plug the mic in first, restart Audacity and pick the microphone for recording.

Koz

And as I think about this, make sure:

Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Recording > [X] Overdub is the only thing selected in that panel.

Koz

The volume spread may be too much for Chris, but this is the sort of thing that he designed his compressor to fix. He wanted to listen to opera in the car and hear everything from the whimpering maiden in the south forty, to the tutti-fortissimo orchestra, all accompanied by his car engine and road ...

You were recording the acoustical leakage from the headphone to the microphone. It's a design mistake. In a perfectly working phone, you wouldn't be able to record the far side at all.

How would you do it in Pro Tools?

Koz

So you were trying to record your cellphone with the Personal Sound Recorder? Have you tried to rescue a portion of your performance manually? You're never going to get the background noise levels to work right, but you may be able to produce a workable show with Chris's Compressor. http://theaudaci...

- >>> Note this is a proposal for a future improvement in Noise Removal. It's not a How-To. <<< - Sample the whole performance during the Noise Reduction Profile Step and use the predominant sound that doesn't change for the Profile. Or better, take the Profile completely in the background unless yo...

And first, a simple noise cancellation would be a great first step. Have you tried to get regular, normal Audacity Noise Removal to work? It's not simple or even always helpful. It's a two-pass system. Run it once and do this, then run it again and do that. It's not like the automatic, handy traffi...

That's excellent. Not that it's going to immediately cure your problem, but now you have a way to figure out what's wrong. When I do these tricks to find a problem, it does look like I should be locked up or something, but it's actually a valid trouble-shooting measure. Take note what happens to the...