Audacity Forum

If you do cutting and editing before Export, then it's very important to use the Dithering setting in Audacity 2.0.5.

Koz

Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Quality > Sampling Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Devices > Recording We hope you're not doing anything where the client is going to start counting digital samples or surgically taking the sound file apart. That's not going to work. Audacity always works in super hig...

Seems I have a bug.

Probably not. A "Bug" is unintended, evil behavior experienced by thousands of people on different computers. One thing that regularly kills Audacity is evil behavior that was intended. That's not a bug. That's a Feature Request.
Koz

except songs with low volume moving balance out of center actually increases volume Download and play my test sound clip. Make sure your head is centered between your two speakers when you play it. I'm betting your sound system doesn't pass and segment three and four are reversed or damaged. http:/...

MacBook Pro?
How are you editing in Audacity when Mac focus is somewhere else?
Are you on Shore Power (power adapter)?

Note that most USB mixers (like the Behringer Xenex 1204USB) are also stereo only on the USB port.

It's not stereo on the analog Main Out and Tape Out?
Koz

Which Audacity? You should be in 2.0.5.
Koz

Another note, dig in Pamela Preferences and see if you can crank the MP3 quality up as high as you can. 256? 320? Or better, not use MP3 at all in favor of uncompressed WAV.

Koz

You win the award. I don't think anybody has ever posted trouble using Pamela Pro. Just so we're riding the same railroad here, your presentation looks something like attached (click on it)? I don't think Audacity can do that during Import. This has to be a Pamela setting somewhere. If you play the ...

Hopefully, you're using a UFO-202? Is Audacity in stereo? Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Devices > Recording. The device may say something like "USB Audio Codec" or something like that. The UFO-202 can be used as a raw turntable preamplifier as well as a straight Stereo interface. There's...