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Koz

Smoothing may be the key to this. What that control actually does is define the amont of voice that makes it through unaffected. Koz

especially mixing music and voice.

How are you doing that? Normal Macs do not have provision for recording internal sound.

Koz

Audacity > Preferences > Recording > [X] Playthrough (select) Audacity > Preferences > Devices and make sure it's pointing to something you can listen to like Built-In Output. Restart Audacity and make sure Built-In Output is selected in the recording window. You can't easily listen to speakers when...

this trick needs to be used in moderation.

But better than we used to do where we couldn't do it at all.
I can't wait to try it out on my "recording in the kitchen" sound clip.
Koz

Since you used The Voice as the Profile why does the voice itself not vanish?
Koz

Many people are disappointed to find that Audacity can't deal with Network Connected Storage for one example. Koz

Not directly, no, but it does prompt me to ask about your storage. The video people generally have tons of storage and Audacity doesn't always get along with some connection techniques. Describe the machine. You introduced the problem with wanting to capture YouTube sound, but even though that's a r...

Yes, thank you. We're staring at the screen wondering the next direction to go with this. Koz

it's a round about way to just do save project. It's no way to save a project. It's a way to export sound files. We need to be really careful how we describe the symptoms. You want to save your show by exporting a sound file. We hang on your every word, so they all count. Also, we may need you to d...