Audacity Forum

If you have a single track with blue waves, force it to be Mono with the drop-down menu under the little black arrow on the left. When you export, the show should appear left and right which is how a stereo system handles Mono Koz

Generate > Click Track.

The click track creation panel has all the timing information. As to which rhythm is right for you, that's your decision.

Koz

Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Recording: [_] Playthrough (de-select).

You need to leave Overdubbing selected to hear the old tracks.

Koz

Some microphones are mapped to stereo and some are mono.

Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Devices > Recording: Stereo/Mono

Koz

Missed one. Edits tick when one or both of them has DC on the blue waves.

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/DCOffset.jpg

That's an extreme example.

Effect > Normalize > Remove DC (de-select everything else). You have to do this to the clips before you start editing.

Koz

Here it is. Edit > Find Zero Crossings. I've never used it, but its job is to help you find the places where both waves are in the exact middle, the best place to edit. I think you still have to force the wave direction manually.

Koz

If you know where the cut point is, you can make sure the in-going and out-going waves are in the middle and going the same direction. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/BadAndGoodEdit.jpg The top one is going to "tick" every time. There is an Audacity tool to help with matching up edi...

Are you talking about that barely perceptible tick at about 21.25? What are we listening for?

The legacy, tried and true way to slide around one of those is a very rapid crossfade. That's how the video editors work, or do you intend this to loop forever?

Koz

I would stop using MP3. MP3, partially because of its video heritage has no fixed anchor points or structure. You could be struggling with that timing thing until the cows come home. Maybe after. Do all your production and post production in WAV. Then, way at the end, if you absolutely have to, conv...

There's another simple padding thing I bet you missed. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/JMASoundShoot.jpg Please note the folded moving pad under the microphones. That prevents comb filter effects by sound reflecting from the desk. That's hard to explain, but it has the effect of talking acros...