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which I am able to patch into via my laptop. I'm curious how you're doing that. Most theater managers are not comfortable with letting people mess with the sound in any way. If you're on a Windows machine, that can actually cause sound problems. I've never recorded a singing group, so past the prob...

You used a couple of fuzzy words there. You have an external, self-contained sound mixer which you think has a multi-channel digital bitstream USB output. The object is to capture that bitstream as a multi-channel project in Audacity (or some other program). You left out the description of the sound...

The desperation method of transferring show sound (not Mic sound) to a Windows PC is to add an external soundcard like the UCA202.

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You left out the important part. You plugged the phone into the Mic-In of your Windows laptop. The volume mismatch and Windows' Enhanced Services destroyed the sound. If you have a blue Stereo Line-In on your computer use that. You can't use the pink Mic-In. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PC...

Noise Removal always damages the sound. If you're going to high quality piano playing, then you really need to figure out where the static is coming from. Noise Removal doesn't "know" what interference is. It just uses your profile as a guide what to filter out. If some of the noise happen...

Control-F or Command-F is Zoom Full. That will show you everything from the first note to the last. The fact that the show isn't on the screen should not prevent you from selecting the whole track. If you click just above the mute button to the left, that whole track will select whether or not it's ...

Sometimes it's better to just not listen. You can turn off Playthrough in Audacity Recording Preferences. Recording Latency, not Computer Latency, is adjustable, so you can sing to an existing instruments track, you just can't hear your own live performance. Some much more expensive software package...

Yes. That's correct. You are listening to "one computer" worth of delay -- the time it takes the sound to go through processing twice, once coming in and once again going out. As a practical matter, that's just how it works. Plain computers are not Digital Audio Workstations. That's why th...

Zero. Never do production in MP3. MP3 is a one-use throw-away format. Forum upload filesize limit is 1MB. This is usually enough to get the point across if you have an interference or production question. MP3 tends to hide quality issues, so that's discouraged. If you need anything larger than that,...

They're empty as in zero bytes? Or empty as in they play the right number of minutes but they're silent?

Open Audacity fresh and Generate > Noise > OK. Export that. Does that work? Do you get a sound file that opens in QuickTime Player and shshshsh at you?

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