Audacity Forum

Without the special software, the box turns into a straight Left-Right digitizer -- what you have now. You need the software license to make what you want -- or create the two-track show artificially later in Audacity Post Production.

Koz

OIC. OK. One of these "Y" cables: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2272476 Or equivalent. Two of these, one to the computer and one to the keyboard. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/stereoJumper.jpg Buy from anybody. Connect one to each branch of the "Y"...

Effect > Sliding Time Scale/Pitch Shift.
Koz

Pamela is the go-to application for recording Skype in Windows. It's a money-based product and they recommend ecamm for Macs. http://www.pamhelp.com/index.php?/pamela/Knowledgebase/Article/View/371/0/is-there-a-pamela-for-apple-mac I've never used it. Because the black magic in all this is Skype Man...

Try changing the Audacity Preference settings:
Devices > Recording > Stereo or Mono (there's no way to know -- try both)
Quality > Sampling > 44100, 16-bit.

Most devices support that and it's a good place to begin.

Koz

While it's possibly to eventually get a reasonable match, it may take you a very long time. You should find someone with a good graphic equalizer in their sound system and play with that in real time. I bet you can a get a good match in under an hour. http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PV215EQ?u...

Oh, there's another little nasty that Audacity likes to do. It volunteers to save your work in /Applications/Audacity. Do Not let it do that. Save your work on the desktop or some other folder where you keep work.

Koz

and put it through its paces. You probably didn't put it through its paces. It is required that you run Audacity from an installed folder, not from inside the .DMG file. Double click the .DMG (Disk Image) and it will explode into a little disk drive. Open that and find the Audacity Folder. Go (top ...

That's a built-in service that Audacity has called Overdubbing. If you set up for that, Audacity will play your old tracks (as many as you select) into your headphones -- or speaker system at the same time you can play along and record that on a fresh, new track under all the old ones. http://manual...

What's the show? What are you recording for three hours? Unless you intentionally bought hardware that changes volume by itself, it's highly unlikely that's what's causing problems -- assuming it's working OK. The software, on the other hand, is a very different story. Did you turn off Windows Enhan...