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that pan setting does NOT save to .wav.

It does when I do it.

Audacity doesn't Save WAV files. You have to File > Export to get one. Is that what happened? You Saved a sound file instead of Export?

Koz

Missed one. While you're live recording/overdubbing with a microphone, you must wear headphones. No option. Audacity overdubs by running live, real-time playback and live, real-time recording and any leakage between those two is pure evil. Among other things, because of the gymnastics Audacity has t...

Post some of the voice. Otherwise we're all guessing. https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=72887 One of the first steps in the overdubbing instructions is to make sure you can make a plain, pure, simple recording. If you can't, you need to fix that first. There's nothing like tryi...

I was going to suggest clearing the Audacity config files. They have a nasty habit of hanging onto stuff sometimes whether you want them to or not.

Was that a feature of Audacity3? An option to really, for real start over when you reinstall the program?

Koz

Need a little more. What are you recording? If a microphone, which one and how do you have it connected? Which Mac?

Do you use iCloud?

Koz

i see you say you "mastered it" to get it to pass Screen Shot 2020-09-23 at 10.40.10 AM.png Right out of the instructions in the wiki. When I got done, I ran Analyze > ACX Check . Screen Shot 2020-09-23 at 7.22.23 AM.png I didn't do anything magic and technically, that does pass. You're n...

Thanks for the sound file. First audiobook? I mastered it and it did pass ACX Check, but noise did it by fractions of dB not the recommended 5dB. -60.29dB, not -65dB. Nobody can read directly into ACX. Or if you do, it was by accident and you can't do it twice. You're stuck with recording close and ...

I did not use Generate> Silence. -Inf dB came from somewhere . You didn't shoot that with your microphone system. Effect > Noise Gate ? You mentioned having noise problems in your performances. Noise Gate is one of the "miracle" cures that people go for to rescue a noisy performance. I th...

It's good to know that Audacity uses a super sound system internally to keep from damaging your show as you apply effects, filters and corrections. So given that, it's pretty certain you didn't actually shoot sound at -infinity dB. But it can seem that way if you Generate > Silence and stick that in...

You're not posting problems like "how do I make my sound louder." You're posting brain surgery problems and some problems have no fix.

Koz