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Do you want to make the podcast perfect? Not just OK, but perfect? Get the interviewer to repeat her words into a correctly positioned microphone. Then edit her new, clean voice into the show instead of her old, damaged one. We get to see how well your microphone isolation technique is. You may need...

If the two people talked at the same time, I would not be able to do those tricks. That's when separate tracks is handy.
Koz

You are going to have "presence" or echo problems with the off-mic voice. There's very little you can do about that. I rebalanced the levels and cut it a bit (attached).

You're way closer than most people to a good quality podcast or recording.

Koz

Oh, man. You sound like an NPR network broadcast with a tiny balance problem. Put the interviewer on mic (or change the balance in software -- not as good) and you got it licked. We're used to people posting work like this: http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/PPopping.mp3 http://kozco.com/tech/auda...

Audacity is not the best surveillance recorder....
Koz

All this is, of course, assuming your Dual hasn't been used to death and it's still working. Do you have any 78s? Do you have the special 78 needle? 78s have a different size groove than other records and crossing the needles by accident will increase the noise and distortion. Scroll down to the tut...

You can usually do a much better job with a classic turntable than you can with the one-off USB turntable. The USB turntable is intended to be used once and put in the trash. So usually not a quality piece of hardware. However, you do need a preamp with your other turntable. That and USB conversion ...

It's hard to do that with a Mac and a USB microphone. My guess is there's something wrong with the 5 volts in the USB connections. That will kill a USB microphone. The microphone is connected "Home Run," right? The microphone goes straight into the Mac? Audio system do not like USB hubs. Koz

The blue waves are in percent because most useful editing and production happens in the loudest portion of the waves. If the waves are presented in dB (you can switch to that display using the left-hand drop-down menus) then the useful waves are very tiny compared to the whole and it's very hard to ...

How do we hear a sample of your show? You can post samples here on the forum, but it's best if you have posted podcasts we can hear. You can prepare very high quality MP3 (250) and post as much as you can fit here. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=72887 You can still make a sho...