Audacity Forum

The microphone and the cable. Check both.

Then yes, the only thing left that hasn't been tested is the Preamp/USB adapter.

Koz

Chances of the microphone or cable being broken are almost zero -- but not quite zero. This is not a cheap microphone. But the USB Adapter/Amplifier is consumer-grade, low end. That's why my money is on that. Maybe a little history on this system? If you just got it in the mail, why is it out of war...

You don't have another XLR cable do you?

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/XLR-Cable.jpg

Koz

No, no. Calm down. Search the forum for "Focusrite" and "SCARLETT-2I2" and find out what the user experiences were. It's possible there's just a trick to getting it to work right with Audacity and after you resolve that, it works perfectly. I don't recall any reason to warn again...

My money is on the little USB/amplifier. I know people who have NT-1 microphones and they're very highly thought of. Nobody's had one fail. Koz

Did you try reconnecting everything? There are not a lot of options. Did you save your receipts? Find some way to split the system and check each part. Find a rock band that has a microphone you can plug in instead of the NT-1. Find a rock band with a mixer that has Phantom Power and see if your NT-...

Yes try reversing them. I didn't mean send the original and your vocoder voice back through the vocoder. I meant import both the vocoder voice and the original voice track as separate tracks and fade between them. No vocoder. Then apply the equalizer to the separate voice track and fade back and for...

Another quick note. Small, under-powered machines are not welcome in the Land Of Audacity. Audio production takes healthy resources and you might find Audacity crashing if you try to apply multiple effects and tools repeatedly, which you will probably need with this job. If you do it right, you may ...

I'm getting an equalizer cutting highs and lows -- you need to experiment. Possibly a pass through Effect > Leveler to get that fuzzy sound and then add background/noise to taste. I think somebody spent a very long time producing that track and we're not likely to be able to easily reproduce it usin...

Audacity doesn't do anything in real time and has no stand-alone player. Pre-baked equalizer settings many times suppress mids in favor of sparkling highs and thumping bass notes. I can tell they're doing that in a club because I can dance to it, but I can't understand the singer's words. You want j...