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Audacity only knows about equipment plugged in before it starts and Windows has to know about it first. So close Audacity and dig around in the Windows Control Panels and see if your sound system appears there. Newer Windows has little sound meters, so you can check everything even before you start ...

And if you're stuck with a show already on two or more tracks, use the Time Shift Tool (sideways black arrows) to push each track left and right so they play in the right order. They will smash down to one track when you Export. Koz

Here it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iabyEebfCc&list=RDEptPiz-ZYvM I would have put serious money on not being able to record in a bare room like that, but they regularly crank out very nice music. It's the pianist's apartment in Brooklyn. Understand my goal is to find as many things wron...

I have no idea what you are talking about. Does green mean "very compressed?" The focusrite has lights behind the volume controls in place of a sound meter. If the lights are green, then the sound is in normal ranges. If it's off the sound is super quiet and it turns red for clipping. Man...

You put the microphone directly into the 2i2? Did you close down the second microphone channel? This setup gives you sound on the Left of a stereo show, yes? How do you get from that to the finished show?

What happened with Generate > Silence?
Koz

I know somebody's going to comment I didn't push pop filters. That's the tennis-racket thing between the singer and the microphone. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/wynonna2.jpg That's for full-on studio/singing/announcing work. It increases the equipment list and you can do almost as well with the Lo...

This is a great all-around studio recording mic, ideal for capturing vocals and instruments in the studio... This is a review from Sweetwater sound. Note using the word "Studio" twice. That's a soundproof room with carpeting on the walls and ceiling. Or a simulated studio: http://www.kozc...

Is there a goal?
Koz

If you performed a live recording and the recorder only got the Left part of the show, then the best you can do in Audacity is duplicate the Left channel to the Right channel just to have something there. The "real" right channel doesn't exist. You also have the option of making the existi...

Generate > Silence: 10 seconds. Does that hiss? That didn't go through a microphone or amplifiers. It's not that uncommon to assume your microphone is trash when the problem is really the playback side. It's good to stop posting categories of things that didn't work and settle on one or two examples...