Audacity Forum

Are you producing these songs using MP3 as mix clips? Stop that. MP3 screws up music and you shouldn't use it at all until the very last thing before posting and never for masters. It's making some of your instruments "honky" and cell-phony. WAVs or Audacity Projects, although Projects wit...

OK, got it. I dusted off the tone controls [cough, cough]. Pump the treble to bring the brightness up and restore a little of the sting to the drums. Turn the bass 3/4 the way off.

OK. I can listen to that.

"But the words you said just tore my heart in two."

Koz

"Sticks and Stones" is my favorite so far. It has a real voice and relatively little processing. Is one of those cuts s***-kickin', line-dance music? You need: A. A producer. B. Good speakers. The tonal balances are so out of whack I'm goin' with you can't hear what you're doin'. The bass ...

Effect > Vocal Removal works better than I thought it was going to. The lead male voice pretty much vanishes. Unfortunately, so does the bass line, some guitars and most of the drums. Vocal Removal is what everybody wants it to do. What it really does is cancel any music in the left-right stereo cen...

I think you're doing overdubbing wrong. In overdubbing, if you have it set up right, you can record one voice after another using a music or rhythm track as a bed or guide. You can record thirty new voices using one single music bed as a guide without having the tracks interfere with each other and ...

Does Skype or Chat work OK? We should eliminate the possibility that the camera is broken.

Koz

You got the message the second time but not the first?!? Did you turn off or unplug the Yeti between the two tracks? Is the USB Device still listed in the Audacity recording list in the toolbar?
Koz

You can certainly Pause the recording and then pick it up again whenever you wish by unpausing. Or you can stop the recording, save the project, close everything and go home, pick up again next week and press Shift-R (Append Record) to pick up at the end, right where you left off. If you press Stop,...

MP3 is an end-product. That's the format you put on your Personal Music Player or upload, not a production, filter or effects format. MP3 reduces the quality of the music and makes some repair jobs very difficult. AUP is not a sound format. That's the text file that manages an Audacity Project which...

Did I miss a step? File > Import both songs. Tune as needed and then File > Export.

Koz